Doesn't make sense to me either *shrugs* Are they actually telling the women of the risks?

I think it is common for women who have used IVF to undergo a high rate of intervention in their births, is this because they fear their body will fail them after so much disappointment tying to fall pregnant naturally? Are they easy to convince that their bodies will harm their babies?
Absolutely! I had a very non-interventionist OB, so I didn't really have anyone out to scare me about what my body could or could not do in labour. I think it was starting as scans had my baby on the 90th percentile and I was being sent for yet another scan in order to decide whether or not I should be induced at 39 weeks. Never got there as labour started spontaneously at 36 weeks.

But... I'd been through 18 months of IVF hell. I'd been through three miscarriages. I'd seen time and time again that my body couldn't be trusted to do what it was meant to do, and it was a HUGE fear of mine that my body would once again fail at labour and then fail at breastfeeding. We got the labour part ok, but we did fail at the breastfeeding thing. When you are used to seeing your body fail to do what it's meant to, it's all too easy to fall into the belief that your body isn't going to be able to do it with labour either. I don't know that there's any way around it - it's just one of the horrible ways that infertility screws with your head.

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