Speedy, again, don't get me started!!!
So ds1 was a shoulder dystocia due, in all probability, to mismanaged labour of a fairly large baby. For ds2 (different hospital) we were obviously a bit freaked out by previous experience (partic DP who really saw the emergency) so we mentioned it at booking in. This meant I was labelled as high risk and had to see a consultant. PITA we thought but after previous trauma better safe than sorry. As you say, we read up, all indications point to the way to avoid sd's being as active a birth as possible, give birth squatting or on all fours, plenty of movement, no forcing things that arent ready to come. So anyway, I go and see the consultant towards the end who tells me, oh no, you WILL be lying down in bed in the medical labour ward becasue you will be being constantly monitored and we WILL induce at 37 (!) weeks, this is the way to manage case like you.
Needless to say I was livid and demanded to see another consultant who agreed I could have an active birth with extra checks in the second stage, resucitator in the room, crash team on standby, senior midwives to deliver and groth scans to make sure baby not too big. Kept me as high risk which manet couldn't have water birth or go in home from home birth room, got shoved in horrible medical room, no room to move, no birth ball etc etc.
And the bloody irony was that, even though the second consultant wrote all that about extra checks, senior midwives, all over the back of my notes in massive writing, when it cam to the night they left us entirely alon, DP delivered the head and had to press the emergency button with his foot while holding me up to get them in!!
Grr, am going to demand to be taken off high risk at next appt - they have even sent me an appt to see the same ridiculous first consultant! I wondered why.