I am due with my first and want to have a vaginal birth, but if my obgyn recommended it I wouldn't hesitate to have a c-section. Why should women feel "ashamed" of having a c-section? Its just another thing to add to the pile to feel guilty about, much like stopping breast feeding if its not right.

No one should tell anyone else how to have a baby nor should they place guilt an assumptions on such.
I agree with you completely.

I have had two babies....Both caesarean....One emergency and one selective. I had my babies at Mitcham Private Hospital....Both times when I booked in there, I asked the caesarean rate in comparison to vaginal birth rate and they were most willing to tell me that data.

I vote yes, that it is a hospitals responsibilty to inform expecting moms what the rates are, not as a form of shaming the hospital, but as a form of informing expectant mothers of what experience the hospital has in caesareans....It allows mums to know this information, should the caesarean need arise...and that in turn will make the expectant mum and dad feel more comfortable that the hospital is most capable catering for both scenarios.

The higher the rate, the better to me....With vaginal births, the doctor and midwife are needed, but ones body does most of the work without very little help from the medics....Whereas with a caeserean, one fully relies on the doctoring capability.

Yes for statistics

NO to SHAMING - Noones flippin business what someone else is up to...I prefer to worry more about my own life than stick my beak into everyone elses.