Ideally, I wanted to give birth in a midwife led unit, but there
wasn’t one available here. I wanted to give birth in a really small unit
and I was also quite keen on the idea of home birth, because of the time
of year it was quite likely to be snowy which it was, so they weren’t
really keen for me to have a home birth in case they couldn’t have got
me to the hospital because of the weather, or something went wrong
[…]. I’m a red pathway and that meant they really weren’t
very keen for me to have a home birth. And in the end then I decided
that actually it would be better if I was in the hospital in case
something did go wrong.”.
Several women associated consultant-led care, or care in a large
hospital with access to obstetric support, with more interventions: