My first was breech- we found out at 42 weeks just as they were about to induce. I had a c section instead of trying to turn her. I'm also now trying to make up my mind whether to go for VBAC or elective c section. I'm so torn.
That's exactly what happened in my first pregnancy. I was 41w5d when I went in for the induction and I mentioned my feeling that he was breech to the nurse who was hooking up the fetal heart monitor and she thought it was worth checking further into. My cnm had poked around on my belly when I asked her about it, and she assured me he was head down. Well, the nurse grabbed a portable u/s and actually looked. Sure enough, he was frank breech, and face up. The OB was called in to look and he said also there was almost no fluid left (my water hadn't broke, it just sort of naturally starts to get low if you go overdue, but mine had gone like extra low) so he said we could try to turn him, but it probably wouldn't work. He said if he was a full breech instead of frank, we could still induce if I wanted to, but we talked it over and did the cesarean.
With my second, I had the option of vbac as long as baby was head down and I didn't go more than a week overdue. Baby was in perfect position, but my office won't induce on a vbac so at 41w1d, I had a RCS.
Personally, my recovery was much worse the second time around, but I know some of that was due to the fact that I just did not want to be having the surgery but was basically forced into it.
Now that I've had two cesareans, no matter how the pregnancy goes, I have no option but to have a cesarean every time now.
So remember to think about that too, when you're deciding whther or not to have a second cesarean. The second one doesn't carry much more risk than the first one does, but each one after that, the risk goes up signifigantly. The risk of really scary things like needing blood transfusions or maternal death is much higher for a third cesarean than it is for a vbac!
Obviously some people, like the ladies who have an abnormally small pelvis, for example, really don't have the option to decide, but some of you do. Another good thing about vbac is that your baby comes when it's ready instead of on the doctors timetable. That's also true in the cases of a cesarean after a trial of labor.