Hmmm....how can I put this.

HELL will freeze over before I allow anyone with a medical degree or surgical qualifications NEAR my labouring body ever again. It just will not be happening.

I guess you can tell what I voted

I was initially very disappointed with my obstetrician and unfortunately as time goes on and I think about and process it more I have become quite angry about it.

I originally decided to go with a private OB for my second baby (first baby was born public) because I'd had some complications with my first baby who also arrived 4 weeks early.

I really wanted my gestational diabetes kept "on top of" with my second baby because I wanted to do all I could to avoid him being born as early as his sister. I didn't feel that my GD was managed very well with my first bub in the public system - seeing different careproviders at every visit, no one remembering you etc. I ended up on insulin at the end with her.

In making the decision to use a private OB however, I failed to take other things into account - like how much more likely I was to end up with unnecessary interventions and a c/section by choosing this model of care.

Which of course is what happened in the end