*sobs* what good is it anyway? A woman can be as educated as she wants, can want to have support, but the second her ****ing husband decides the doctors know her body better than she does then BAM, the woman is ignored because there's someone else there who will sign the forms.

Seriously, is there any point me hiring a doula next time? My DH will just tell the docs to go ahead despite what I say and he'll be listened to and not a doula. (I know, next time I'm freebirthing, no medical people, no DH... bliss! Just what I wanted for DS!) No risks are ever mentioned about inductions and if a woman mentions them she's dismissed as being silly and so midwives and obs "must" be right.

I just don't see the point of trying to have a decent birth. I really don't. No matter what the woman wants it can just go out the window like that.