My experience with refusing a procedure was to have the ob in question "chuck a tanty". She took her gloves off, threw them to the floor, insisted that she "always" performs episiotomies (sp) and went to leave the room. It took DH threatening to throw her out a window if she did not put her gloves back and continue with her job before she would continue.

So whilst there may be a policy of right to refuse, I am not sure if the hospital actually knows how to cope when that happens.
This is what bothers me.
I know I have the right to refuse - but in a practical sense what's that going to mean for me? That I'll have to deal with a po'd OB for the rest of the birth? That I'll have to deal with a big argument when I'm in labour? Or worse what happened to Astrid :eek:

I'm trying to feel out my OB at the moment on some of these things but you just don't know what they're going to be like until you get them in that situation...but by then it's too late I guess.