Hmm I'm starting to feel like I'm hitting my head against a brick wall.

I don't see the problem with expecting to have statistics on c/s from hospitals. They have to provide stats on all other sorts of stuff, why not this? I don't see why it would be cost prohibitive. Part of their business should be about measuring their performance. They would already have this information, we're only asking to actually get to see it.

And for all those talking about choice, let me say that by saying these stats should not be available, you're effectively taking away MY choice to be informed, to chose my hospital based on their policies and the way their policies reflect on their outcomes.

And to say that if you don't want intervention, then don't choose to give birth in a hospital effectively says that hospital are good for nothing BUT intervention. Why shouldn't women be able to choose (that word again) to give birth in a hospital and yet expect to have a vaginal birth, and not be frightened into a c/s? Or is that too much to ask, that health services actually provide you with the best and safest options available to you?