Caro this wasn't an attack or judgement on you. This is also not an attack or judgement on those who have inductions for severe depression or anxiety or other psychological reasons. But there are PLENTY of unnneccessary inductions going on and you don't have to look far and you will see many Obs saying in the media that they are being done for litigous reasons. Christine Tippett is one who has just gone down as saying that there are unneceasareans being done for that same reason....

Answer to all this is seeing midwives who are specialists in normal pregnancy so there isn't the litigous reasons going on - then Obs really do see those women who do have problems. They should not be caring for normal birth - as the Ricki Lake doco says, they can see pathology where it doesn't exist. Very complex but anyway, see the doco if you get a chance, because if I am a looney, so is Ricki And disclaimer - yes I know - not all Obs are like this. But the vast majority are practicising defensive medicine.