Re: the number, I'm not really that surprised. BellyBelly women tend to do a lot of research on their options, but not all women have the time, knowledge or inclination to go searching for these things.
This is probably quite close to the mark. Unfortunately, women seem to spend more time researching OB's, private health cover and private hospitals, as well as preparing to separate themselves from their babies upon birth (I'm talking about setting up the 'quintessential' nursery here!), setting themselves up for 'failing' at breastfeeding (buying sterilisers, bottles, teats, tins of formula before baby is even born) and upgrading their cars to carry all their paraphanalia than they do for getting their babies into this world as safely and peacefully as possible Somewhere along the line, the priorities got really screwed up! We research our ISP's better than we think we're allowed to research our birth options!!