Good on you!!
Way to go Spring - it sounds as though you handled yourself perfectly. I am so over doctors who scaremonger women into adhering to their personal agendas. Besides - the statistics do NOT support what she is saying at all. Honestly, give someone a white coat and a medical degree and they think they have a license to bend the truth and discard evidence based medicine.
Rates of complications (including SB) are far greater amoung artificially induced labours than spontaneous labours. Induction is the single greatest cause of infant distress - common even amoung induced labours which end in a successful vaginal delivery. The docs know this - its just that they consider emergency c/s with a healthy baby a positive outcome - the mental and physiological impact this operation can have on the mother and baby is irrelevant. (sorry - bit of a vent there...)
Stay strong and stay positive Spring - no one has the right to make you feel guilty or irresponsible for making the best possible decision for your baby and your body. Trust in yourself - your body, your baby and Mother Nature combined are infinitely wiser than anyone standing by in a white coat.
Should there be a justified reason for considering induction then of course your options may change - but as long as you and that baby continue to prove that all is well (or NORMAL), why complicate an uncomplicated situation? Really - the shame is on the medical profession for suggesting unecessary intervention against the best available research evidence.
You can be proud of yourself - you spoke for many of us today.
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