Basically yeah. Particularly with hospital funded programs there is alot of pressure on the midwives to keep things just like hospital or there is risk of the program being stopped . so they are kept to hospital policy (ie failure to progress is not determined by the birthing mum or baby, but by what the hossy determines as 'taking a long time' ITMS).

Hopefully once alot of the trial periods are up, these programs can begin to etch out their own policies that can better reflect the individual care that is inherent with HB, but for now, the rules are pretty strict.