Through the dreaded double doors

As a midwife, there are times when I look after women in labour and everything they wished to avoid in their birth plan ends up happening. We end up in a cascade of intervention which ultimately leads through the double doors into theatre. Sometimes I feel that I have somehow failed a labouring woman when the labour ends in a caesarean section. The reality is that whilst I’d love everyone to have the most beautiful birth experience possible; there are times when caesareans are needed and it is nothing to do with failure, it is just one of those things.