No persuasion here- just it makes me very annoyed that people seem to think that women should be TOLD one way or the other. Informed choice means being given all the information and being able to choose for themselves. Being told 'hospital is really safe and home is dead dangerous' is completely baseless, especially when we know that once you get to hospital you increase your risk of iatrogenic complications... something that again increases with continuous fetal monitoring in low risk women. And then we have to deal with the fallout for women who have been told that they need doctors and hospitals to have their baby, and it's a horrible, disempowering experience. I've looked after too many women who've had health professionals tell them they MUST do one or the other thing, forced into having interventions they didn't want and sometimes didn't need... I've looked after people with genuine tokophobia and PTSD as a result, and met people who have decided never to have another baby as a result of a bad first birth. Hospitals and doctors undoubtedly have their place and I'm really grateful for the ones I work with as they also have the women's best interests at heart (ie HER interests) rather than their own agenda. My personal agenda is to get my clients as well prepared and well informed as possible, and then to support them through their choices. To me, it doesn't matter how or where they ahve their baby as long as they make the choice with the correct information, and they aren't going to discover two years down the line that they were deceived about something to do with their care, and then they suffer becuase of it.