I saw your post on /r/babybumps and it made me really sad. For what it's worth, most of the doulas I know are, while being admittedly biased toward natural birth, open to interventions when necessary.

My personal opinion is that intervention isn't necessary as often as it is currently being utilized, and I think that's a problem in terms of the cascade of interventions, etc, especially when mothers want something else. It bothers me when women feel like they're not making their own decisions and instead are just going with what the doctor pressures them to do. I definitely think there are times when interventions are absolutely necessary, and I'm grateful we live in a world where they exist so we can make birth safer, but at the same time it makes me sad that the pervasive attitude toward birth right now is so medical. It's my own personal feminist cause; I don't feel that women need to be managed by doctors. I don't think they need to be counted at and told when to push unless something is wrong.

My thing about it is, I know birth is so important in women's lives. It's something no woman is ever going to forget, and so feeling empowered and strong and especially supported in the context of birth is so important. For some women, that mean having a natural birth. For some it means making a choice for cesarean. For others, it's getting an epidural. At the end of the day the point is for women to feel as though they made the choice themselves, instead of feeling like it was forced on them by someone else-- doctor or midwife or doula.

Not entirely related but you should check out [Birth Without Fear](birthwithoutfearblog.com). It's run by a mother and it's all about empowerment and support of educated decisions in birth, whatever the choice is -- bottle feeding or EBF, natural or medicated, induction or cesarean or spontaneous, everyone still deserves support.