TAKE BIRTH BACK
As soon as you announce you are pregnant, the stories and discussions will start rolling in. Stories about the gynaecologists who schedule caesarean sections according to golf tee-off times, who coerce women into c-sections, epidurals and episiotomies; hospitals that tell you to labour faster to fit into their procedures and timetables; and midwives who push so hard for you to birth naturally that they refuse to call the gynae and cause long-term damage to you and baby: whatever the truth behind each story, the mother is always painted as a hapless victim forced into abirth she does not want, and is then judged for it by friends and family, and by herself.
According to Dr Peter Koll,
