However, we don't decide that our tonsils need to come out - we get a consult and then there are criteria that need to be met. Why is it different with major surgery to remove a baby?
Grrreat point there, Deb! My sister suffers from horrid tonsilitis that takes off the top lining of her tongue yet they won't take her tonsils out.

Yet... when I briefly questioned my GP about the chances of me having a VBAC, he was very quick to jump on the risks of vaginal birth... as if the risks of a caesar were lower? I haven't gone in-depth about it with him yet but what if I wasn't prepared to question it and just go blindly along?? Like I did last time.
My emergency caesar with Gab was necessary because she was being strangled by the cord (I know some babies are born with the cord around their neck but she was literally being strangled it was wrapped so tight)... but all the intervention leading up to it probably contributed to that happening. It makes me feel so ill knowing that I just nodded and agreed to what the doctors said because they know best. All because I had high BP that could have been helped with a few meds. Grrr, grr, grr!

It doesn't surprise me that women think that caesars are perfectly ok. After all, there's plenty of women out there (like myself) that have healthy babies and are perfectly fine after having the surgery. Well..... physically fine. I wouldn't say the experience left me emotionally fine at all.
It's medical dominance. Doctors have always been the head of the food chain. It'll take a lot to change that!