I am sorry that I came across anti-hospital: if that is what the woman wants and she is respected then I am sure they can be great. Quite frankly, I know the hospital I birthed at quite well and they like to mess around with a woman in labour if at all possible. I do know of one person who managed to get out her baby drug-free and she had a 2-hour labour from start to finish!

If there is anything "wrong" next time (breech bub, placenta prevaria, very long labour, waters break more than 24 hours before...) then I will go to hospital. But I won't be happy about it and will be taking handcuffs for obstetricians and as many proper support people as I can grab! But because I know my hospital and I know my DH I was wanting a freebirth before I gave birth (read some of my pregnancy posts if you don't believe me!) and I do think that everything would have been fine if that had happened. But hindsight is 20/20; I won't pretend I was happy with the hospital but... I dunno, I didn't really have support. I wouldn't have wanted to freebirth, I would have wanted support but it would have to be support for me, not support for interventions!