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Interview 23

Age at Interview: 26
Background: Shop supervisor with one son aged two. Living with fiance, who works as a risk assessor. Ethnic background: White British (English).

Brief outline:Had lengthy labour with 1st child after being induced, taken for emergency CS after baby's heart beat dropped. Explored options early in 2nd pregnancy, decided on VBAC. 2nd child born after 10 hours, painful labour but great sense of achievement.


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She thinks it's important to be confronted with the facts, even if they can be scary.

 



I mean, I think to some extent you, you have to be blunt, to say look, this is what could happen, because if you sugar coat too much, do you know what I mean, and then when someone- something actually happens to someone, you know, they're kind of shocked then. It's like, “Whoa, I didn't realise it was going to be like this and ahh…", you know? I think in some ways you do need to be blunt and sort of say this is this and that's that.

I think with midwives, they can sometimes skirt round things a little bit, whereas obviously the program, if you wanted to know about a certain thing, it would give it to you, you know, in plain English. It's like, “Yes, this is this, that is that, boom, boom”, whereas like I said, I think sometimes- I don't think they mean to but I think sometimes they can skirt round it a bit and say, “Oh, well that's nothing to worry about”, or “Well, no, no”, or you know, so, but if you really do want to know about certain things then yeah, I think that's quite a good thing to, to click on and have a look at, I think.

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