Can someone just write to KevinO7 and ask him to make it mandatory for obstetricians to disclose their caesarean rate without you having to ask.

We should make that the first question people ask you when you're pregnant ie. oh, you're pregnant, fantastic, which hospital/obstetrician are you going to? And what's their caesarean rate?

It's pretty easy to find out a public hospital's caesarean rate (if you bother looking) but if you're a first timer and learning as you go, you might only ask your obstetrician quite late into your pregnancy where it would be unsettling to change.

I know caesarean rates aren't the be all and end all, but they'd have to be pretty good indicator. I'd like to see a publically available 'league table' for private obstetricians which should spark debate about why there are such huge disparities.

I completely accidentally have the obstetrician with the lowest caesarean rate in Melbourne. I say accidentally because I only went with him because all the female ones (which was my main criteria) were booked out and I didn't know about the appallingly high caesar rates before I went with him. I now say "ooh, he has the lowest blah blah blah" as a badge of honour but I think it would be quite good if women got competitive about whose ob had the lowest caesar rate!