Vaginal birth dying out?

[PumpkinZulu]

It is used unnecessarily, absolutely. There's lots of evidence of that. But ultimately, it's each woman's responsibility to chose the way she wants to birth. It is unfortunate when women get bullied into a certain route, or when they simply don't know they have options. It does make me sad. But it's not my birth. I used to feel differently about this, but now I realise that not much will change, and it doesn't bother me. The only time it does is either when women are bullied and badgered into a birth that isn't necessary or good for the mother and baby, or when the choice to have a certain type of birth impacts negatively on another, ie when say, episiotomies are so common in some hospitals that its assumed the mother will be fine with it, and so lowers the status quo for everyone. That's wrong. Yes our birth culture is a lot more medicalised...my view is, so long as it doesn't impact negatively on how *I* want to give birth (which unfortunately it sometimes does) it's not my business. I try to block out negative, counterintuitive births to the one I had and the ones I want to have, because in my later pregnant state I find them derailing and unhelpful.