if someone goes around reading the Ob bashing that seems to be happening in threads like this, they may decide just to ignore the advice WITHOUT educating themselves. if you're uneducated and blindly trust a forum of this sort, you MIGHT put yours or your childs life at risk. i'm quite sure those ladies who've had late onset and severe pre-eclampsia would kick themselves if they'd decided to ignore their Ob's advice to be induced (Hollye?) and something gone wrong for themselves or their baby. i'm sure, in the heat of the moment, some of those ladies HAD to have blind faith in their carers. what a horrible thought - to put your faith in the people that saved you and your child...
Totally agree with you BG. I never understand why their is so much OB bashing on this site? I say, thank god for OB's, hosptials, interventions, pain relief....

With my pregnancy of my second child by bp was around 150/110 in the final weeks and yet I had no obvious physical pre-eclampsia symptoms. If I had decided to "freebirth" I would of put myself and my baby's life at risk. Fortunately I was induced and I had a positive birth expierence and when I say "positive" I am stating the fact that my baby was born alive and healthy. To me this is the important issue. Should I have not had faith in my Ob the outcome may have been very different.