It's such an uphill climb here... and every time we seem to go up... something happens to bring things down again. Sometimes it just gets so hard suggesting, encouraging, persuading, sometimes fighting. We're doing lots to try and educate families (demand) and as for hospitals (supply), if we could just ask them to fork out a bit of money to equip hospitals with gym mats, birth balls, even just to allow the use of a shower - some very few items in our massive wishlist - and allow mums to use them, I reckon there'd be a calculable improvement in vaginal birth rates. Getting a whole systematic overhaul - apart from a shift in perspective - seems impossible at the moment!