Should c/s rates be published? Naming & shaming...

[Bathsheba]

QUOTE: Saying that as long as mum and baby are ok at the end of the day is offending?

I would say it could be quite upsetting... birth trauma is a very real situation and by telling a mother that she shouldn't be traumatised (by either a c/section or vaginal birth) because her baby is safe is very dismissive and will make the trauma worse. But that is off topic. If women feel fully informed then trauma is less likely to occur. A policy allowing women to be informed could reduce birth trauma.

ETA: and I would suspect that if there were less women with birth trauma there would be less women with PND. This is why being dismissive of "how a woman gives birth" can be upsetting.