Following on from this Obstetrician's comment:

If you had a choice, would you choose to give birth in a midwifery led unit (where there is emergency transport available and hospital closeby), or would you prefer an obstetric model of care? I wonder if 10% is reflective of the BellyBelly membership?
I'm pretty sure that I've *had* that guy as an OB! And I'm not sure I'd prefer him over birthing in a barn, let alone a fully equipped midwifery unit!

The ironic thing is, at Wodonga hospital, the midwives manage most of the labour and delivery anyway, even the inductions!!

It's a vicious circle with mid centres, even homebirth - the fewer of them there are, the less normalised they are, the more nervous women are about using them. You offer the services, more people use them, and then it becomes more normalised and people want to use them more.

You just have to look at the demand at birthing centres to see how much in practice women want to use these services.

I'm hoping to use midwifery care, but it will probably be at either a birthing unit attached to a hospital.