As much as it would bug you, considering what you know yourself of the system, there are some people who you just can't help kwim? They are fully happy with just letting whatever happen, happen, even if it is to their detriment. The thing with this kind of attitude though is that even if she does get every intervention under the sun as well as horrible treatment by the staff to boot, it would probably not be a traumatic birth for her as it would be for someone like you or I because she simply does not have an expectation of the respect and care she is rightly entitled to get as a birthing woman - she doesn't realise that the way she could possibly be treated and the possible birth outcome would be seen as traumatic if it were experienced by anyone else.

But that's not to say that taking a cavalier 'go with the flow' approach to birth is the same as this because I know many women to take that view and get exactly the births they want - it just means that they have done their research and educated themselves and know what to expect and know how they should be treated, but they just want to see where labour takes them kwim? Choosing to be completely ignorant about birth is setting yourself up to be at the full mercy of the system and if you can come through birth with that ideology with your abdomen intact then it would sheerly be luck and to escape with no trauma even more so and I guess having an ignorance is bliss philosophy would mean you are also blissfully ignorant of the trauma you have suffered which may be a good thing?