I think we all have our own experiences which are valid but I haven't really witnessed any of these things and I had one birth with a couple of puffs of gas that I soon ditched and one drug free in the private system with a private OB (same one both times)... no forceps or tearing or cutting. Nobody ever made a big deal out of it really, it just was. In my first birth I was offered gas which I tried but disliked, I wasn't offered anything further (and during transition got a little irrationally annoyed in my head but was thankful afterwards lol). In my second I wasn't even offered gas. Both times bub was put on my chest to feed while the cord was still attached, I never asked for delayed clamping but they waited and I heard the midwife explain to the student midwife there about delayed clamping too which impressed me after all the horror stories I've heard it just wasn't my experience at all. I never had the gbs swab, I only had one scan with either pregnancy (morphology at 20w), I never even heard the terms stretch and sweep or induction (although first came spontaneously at 38w and second at 40w 3d so might have happened later). I was encouraged into the shower, to move, to use the birth ball and to birth in a more squatting position (although ended up on my side in bed because that was what was comfy for me, they always supported my choices although explained how squatting would assist and offered ways to support me being on my legs I just really wanted to lay down lol). They were really hands off and felt led by me.

I think there are some places swinging back to a more 'natural' approach. Or maybe I just got lucky, I'm not sure. I don't really know much about anybody else's birth, I was pretty surprised how it never really came up at mother's group or anything. Maybe that is part of the problem, nobody talking about it?