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.
Last edited by Bathsheba; November 20th, 2008 at 03:01 PM.
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