It is true that the stats are great at "The Farm" because they have such excellent care and complications are picked up.
The point being that for healthy women that are educated about the birthing process, have excellent support and have low risks birth is very often an uncomplicated empowering event.

So, why then do we have a system that is geared toward medical intervention? We have it because women in general have lost Trust in their bodies and the process of birth. We have it because women now beilieve they are not getting good care unless they have an obstetrician. The art of mid wifery has been downgraded in the minds of some to handmaidenship rather than the art that it is. Many many women don't believe they are getting optimal care unless they have an obstetrician. However the stats are very clear. If you have a birth in a private hospital (always under the care of an obstetrician) you have a 30% chance of a c/section in Australia (and higher then this at some hospitals) and a high chance of intervention beginning from ctg monitoring which in itself means a woman labours in bed and cannot adopt postures that are natural for women to use in labour/birth...
We are led to believe that if we go past that magical due date we must be induced... So much fear surrounds this - again we need to listen to women,listen to OUR bodies, educate ourselves. The way the birthing system is now we listen to the doctor - the doctor who we see for a 10 minute visit - we give over our power and our womanly instincts...

Absolutely some women do require intervention for their wellbeing and the well being of their babies. Absolutely no argument. The problem is that MANY women don't and the system is geared to see birth as a disorder and not as a normal and sacred family event.

I do think that a doco needs to pull punches and if it puts some peoples noses out of joint so be it. I think it is clear that this documentary is trying to get a message across. JOurnalisim is just that. A journalist will report from their own bias. I
f I was a journo I would be doing the same thing I must admit!!!

We all see it differently and yes, they could add "some" in there but is that going to change it so much that more people would watch it? I don't think so personally...

ETA: Mr Moo if you would like to contact me I could perhaps refer some women who have had vbacs on to you if you can give me some details.