3rd February 2010 12:06
I was delighted to see this too - I told my mother to read it as she was a bit freaked out that I decided to go Public (ie. to the Midwives' Clinic) so I was glad to see such a positive report! Interesting to see too that the three factors in a positive birth experience were one to one from a midwife, immersion in the bath and hypnobirthing.
I thought the consultant from Holles came across badly though, even DH commented on how negative his language was, saying the epidural transformed a 'miserable experience' for women into a positive one. I'm more interested to know how the labours he referred to got to the stage of being miserable experiences the first place. I get the feeling consultants see very little of what happens in the 24 hours leading up to delivery and so don't appreciate how important that time can be.