I am a HCP and therefore would like to think I have some idea when it comes to consent etc. I was one of those women in the other thread that said I had an episiotomy with forceps delivery and was not directly asked if I consented to being cut. I did not know I had had an episiotomy until after the epidural wore off and I was in a huge amount of pain that one of the midwives .

After labouring for 30 hrs I was exhausted and I just wanted my baby out. I was under midwife care throughout my pregnancy & labour until I was told I was 'failure to progress' in which case an OB was called in, I was told to shuffle down the bed, and 10minutes later my baby was born. She didn't even acknowledge me or tell me her name when she walked in. She just explained how she would work the forceps. No mention of episiotomy nada