Thanks for sharing your sister's experience BC. I'm due to go to Murdoch - is that where she went? The trainee midwife said all the same things - mobile, able to get in bath etc, but as most inductions seem to also have an epi then I would end up immobile, making the process harder.

I think I've worked out what the Ob's train of thought is, and that is that if I have a large baby I would probably want an epi, but I cant have an epi if my platelet count drops too low. So his idea seems to be to bring the baby on while my platelet count is still reasonable, so I can have an epi if I want. But I've never said to him I def want one, just that I'm open to pain relief options. I'm still not sure it's a viable enough reason.

I do like the hospital and the midwives there were all fantastic, so I'm loathe to change hospitals so late on, but it's safe to say I wouldn't recommend my current Ob.