I can't add any more to Michael's post - so well said.

I am so pleased things are changing, I think it's terribly sad that Australia is having such high intervention rates. We (as a whole) need to simply demand more.

The problem is that RANZCOG does not seem to understand that for women the way in which they give birth has immense significance."
That's exactly right. I think they are so 'medicalised in their thinking that they just see it as a means to an end. But that is just so oversimplified & not true...