I had an awesome hospital birth with DS and my Ob was fantastic, the midwives were great, and I had a wonderful doula as well I really can't fault my birth... and I wasn't even in a birth centre and it was a VBAC. It makes me sad that 99.9% of hospital births aren't like this, I know it can be and I know that Ob's don't need to be intervention crazy to do their job. I hope one day it can all go back to being a team that works together for the woman rather than what the situation currently is.

Here's a different perspective though... would I recommend my daughter have a hospital birth... probably not. In fact I would want for her (provided it was her wishes obviously) the most natural birth experience possible with little intervention. Purely because I got lucky doesn't mean she will (unless something changes) and thats what is so sad.