It's annoying that they are like that at all- they're meant to be helping the mother not worrying about how long they'll be doing their job for. I know the NHS is hard up as far as lack of mw's and nurses go but surely they are making matters worse by keeping someone in hospital longer than they need to be and cs's cost a lot more than a normal delivery anyway!
A friend of mine is training to be a midwife and she's had 4 kids of her own (although none were born by cs, she had different experiences with each 1 ranging from gestational diabetes to premature baby) and she was working with a midwife recently that hasn't had a child of her own so she hasn't experienced labour/birth herself and didn't seem to know what she was doing as she was expecting the woman that was delivering at the time to give birth lying flat on her back!
What is going on with these hospitals?!
Lou x