A culture of fear

I’m so used to looking after women who step “outside the box” that now I find it hard to understand some midwives’ reactions when going into hospital. At the moment, I have a client who is 42 weeks and declining induction and some of the hospital midwives are having kittens over it, telling her she is putting her baby at risk and making her feel like a naughty child. Even one of the supervisors keeps phoning the office about it. I’m left wondering if any of them have actually read any research or have ever come across the word “choice”.