Pressure to Have the "Perfect Birth"

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Tobily I didn't read your post as a rant at all, in fact it was incredibly articulate and very well reasoned. Loved it.

ETA wanted to add my experience too, that with all my vaginal births, it was those that had increased medical intervention, eg induction, pain relief etc that were my least satisfying births, with Charlie's being the least satisfying (epidural, induction due to fetal distress). My near drug free birth to my DS2 still is the one I feel most emotionally about, because I felt like a lioness after, strong and capable of anything.

In fact at Charlie's birth, they were talking epi the minute I walked in the door. So definitely no push for natural birth there.