Bronya, that's lucky she sought advice, mine didn't, and told me baby wasn't posterior (when contrary to this she wrote he was in my notes!) and casually said, oh, but it's No 2 when I went bananas after she's been telling me to push for 2 hours as he was scanned at 10lb and I made it very clear, any sign of posterior and I wanted an epidural to see if I could relax and he'd turn like No 1 did.
I was induced at Stoke and had a 26 hour labour without seeing a single doctor, so in my case I was really unhappy. I can cope with inexperience, if they escalate as appropriate, but this one I had didn't and thus would have perhaps been bordering on negligent, and not listening is not a quality I would seek in a midwife. Luckily we were both OK as I demanded the consultant be called as soon as I found out her dishonesty (at changeover).
Had an awful postnatal experience too at Stoke following short staffedness. They took baby 'to settle him' kept patting him off to sleep for 6 hours, I naturally fell into a deep sleep following EMCS and PPH. When he awoke he was hypoglycaemic, I'd been happy to feed hourly, but I guess they thought easier to keep him with them at midwife station. They then gave him formulae and wouldn't let me go home. They seriously sent me into PND. I could have coped with poor labour or poor postnatal care, but both were just too much.
In the end we left the minute they had the correct blood sugars for him at 3am.
I'm not saying everyone will have such an experience as that was simply mine, but this was my 2nd child and the outcome could have been worse had it been my 1st as I would have trusted her more. I also know others who've had good experiences, but another in my postnatal group was left so late for section there was no blood in the cord when they finally got her son out.