LOL Ambah, not a bad idea!

Was talking to DH later and he thought perhaps she was just trying to make sure that those women who were sick in labour or tore badly (I mean, she went into a lot of detail about 4th degree tears which I really don't think I needed to hear... if I ever got one that bad, I certainly don't want to know it, I just want to be carefully stitched up and given lots of painkillers! How can it make it better for her to describe which parts of your anus tear?!!! EEEK!!)

Anyway, where was I? Dh thought it was just to reassure those women to whom it might happen that it was OK, and I was talking to my sister and she said it's the same with pain medication, some midwives are set on promoting a drug free natural birth to the point that some of the other women who went through labour at the same time as my sister were having real feelings of failure because they'd had to have pain relief.

I won't have that midwife again, anyway - she's in the other team and so won't be taking any more of my classes or be at the birth.

So odd, really, I know that I'm well educated about lots of things to do with birth and labour, so why don't I trust the information I have at hand? I suspect it's a case of blindly trusting someone in authority, gee, that can be a dangerous thing! Perhaps it's just as well I've met this midwife to give me a bit of a kick in the pants and show me that I should be forming my own opinions, and trusting them!!