Hi!
I had #1 via planned c-section (breech). I was told I could go for V-BAC w/ #2, but as it got closer to the due date (I was due in September & it was a HOT August), I just wanted to get it done. She was delivered 5 days early at 8lbs 12oz, and showed no signs of imminent arrival, so I'm sort of glad I wasn't trying to V-BAC a 9lb baby in the end -- not sure they'd have let me go through with it, which might have resulted in an emergency c-section anyway. I'd much rather have a planned than emergency.
Maybe because they were both planned, I had a super easy time with my sections; I was up & around within 24 hours, at a committee meeting a week later. It was easy to arrange child care, but really I was fine to look after them both -- I was just so glad not to be pregnant anymore! I'm very happy with my decision.
My one bit of advice would be to stay in the hospital as long as they'll let you so that you can get all of the benefit of healing with someone really looking after you -- I was in the US & got to stay a week, not sure how it works here. If you do have to go home, really give yourself a rest for a week or two. Like, don't try to run around doing stuff at 60% -- and you'll be able to get from 0% - 100% much more quickly (if that makes sense?). And don't scrimp on your pain pills that first week -- you heal faster if you're not in pain.
Good luck! Everyone has a different experience of course, but I found going from 1-2 kids so much easier than going from 0-1 -- the main transition has already happened.