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

[ShootingStar]

I find it extremely sad that anyone would put a vaginal birth over the true safety of their baby.....

Actually, I find it a little disturbing.....

As do i.. that is what i was trying to say.

[Bathsheba]

I believe it would be best if all women had realistic expectations of the kind of birth that is right for them. A women who enters a hospital who has an expectation far removed from reality is going to be at risk of birth trauma.

I fail to see how fully informing women will be against their best interests. There is nothing wrong with having an emergency c/section, that goes without saying.... but there is something very wrong with allowing women to attempt to give birth in an environment that is going to statistically lead to a very different outcome to what the women believes will be true... and that applies equally to natural or c/section births.