Wow, Simone and Trish, that midwife sounded awful! I've had some bad ones but none who tried to push intervention... although I've pushed DH a little too far into the anti-intervention court so I doubt anyone would try it with us. As far as I see it, women have been giving birth perfectly well for hundreds of years without all this chemical and monitoring nonsense so why can't I?

Well said Trish about not being there to make friends with the midwife... I think I am going to have to remember that one! This is why I'm going to the birth centre, not the hospital - I like the midwives in the hospital as people, but very few of them as midwives. Far too pro-intervention at hospitals usually.