Oh and another thing too, birth is the only area of health care where you never get told the full story and all the risks associated with various interventions by your Dr - if you were looking down the barrel of serious surgery for cancer or organ transplant/heart surgery etc your Dr would fully inform you of every single detail of the procedure they will do and the risk that it carries and also what your possible outcome of success will be - birth isn't afforded that same openess and honesty and thats why women get let down by the 'system'. Thats my biggest issue with women who just leave it all up to the Dr's because they never tell you that inductions in first time mothers have a high percentage of failure that may lead to further intervention (instruments) or c/s or even that induction can also cause uterine rupture. You don't get told that Syncto has some very nasty side effects there is no transparency at all and even for someone who does *know* all this stuff beforehand still has to pull hens teeth to get the info from her Dr.