There has to be a happy medium here surely. I think that there are times on BB when obs are written about very harshly. Sometimes this is warranted, other times not. I don't think this thread was intended to make everyone decide to home birth. simply to vent about the women out there who are being misinformed by their caregivers. Not always obs; it was the ultrasonographer who tried to tell me I wouldn't be able to birth DS1 as he was too big, my ob said not to worry.

Diamond, I think you fit into the category of people who are OK with their birth experience as you know it was needed. Me too. I have experienced a birth with necessary intervention (severe preeclampsia and emergency c/s at 38 weeks) and a VBAC with minimal intervention (ARM). You also need to realise that not all people are high risk. People don't home or freebirth if they are high risk. Even people with the intention of homebirth generally would have health checks throughout their pregnancies and if they developed preeclampsia, as we did, or some other serious problem, would do what was safest.
What we do need is to be able to rely on caregivers to give us the right information. Not to recommend early induction because a baby might be too big.