Great to hear Linda, "you go girl!"

Don't let the GP's comments put your off - he's citing traditional medico lore that is assumed, but is out-dated, unscientific and not based on evidence. I'm sure s/he means well, but unfortunately s/he is ill-informed. What's your GP's email, we'll send off a whole bunch of info from 'Birthrites - healing after ceasarian' and 'ICAN - International Ceasarian Awareness Network'. (Just kidding! - but wouldn't it be an education!)

I have to differ with his comment, "if the midwives/OB suggest a C/S during labour then it will be better to have it sooner rather than later, because it's inevitable anyway".

I think that's dead wrong TBH. Many times c/s can be averted simply by adding patience and time to the formula. Failure to Progress is many times simply 'failure to wait' because a normal labour can plateau - go for hours with no progress - either to give the mother & baby a natural rest, or to allow tissues time to strech, or head to mould, or baby to subtly re-position. Then it can suddenly pick up again and there can be good progress.

I hope everything goes wonderfully well, stick to your guns, don't let the GPs comments spook you.