I was thinking about consultant-thinking the other day...
it seem that if you tick a 'risk' box, no matter how many unchecked ones there are they will class you as 'high risk'
even though it is simple and obvious fact that average risk means 50% of all women will have less than average risk. some of those women will have risk factors mitigated by other things.
the average home birther has a very low-risk profile - half that of average (that is to say, the correcting factor applied to HB results was to double them, meaning initial risk level is half) - even though 28% of home birthers are over 35 and 4% over forty...(vs 17% 2% CLU IIRC)
this is because we are typically educated middle class white married women who are non-smoking, non-obese etc.
so those things more than compensate for increased age. but consultants never assign a risk value of 'less than average' - despite 50% of women having that level of risk (de facto!)
also, babies born at home are larger than average - 4 oz larger - even with that the results for second timers are just as good (and on secondary outcomes much better) as clu born babies.
glad to see OP has got some more MW contact! you really don't need this though.