Agreed 100%, and I can totally relate to everything you feel. I tried to get into the Royal Brisbane BC but because of the c/s I can't. Absolutely sucks, especially since it's attached to a tertiary hospital so I can't understand their problem!!! And my local don't do water births. Home birth is out of the question for us too - we considered it at one point but now I have GD and am on insulin the midwives aren't comfortable doing a homebirth. And I can't justify the costs of an IM in a hospital birth, especially where the hospital is already hostile towards the midwife I would choose.