Personally I hope that my healthcare practitioners will schedule holidays to recharge their batteries. My MW had a month off while I was pg and I felt happy that she was doing that rather than working to the point of exhaustion. The point is that seeking to induce a client because of a holiday is abhorrent in the extreme. I wonder if the OB is planning to go to her home and help her with her potential PND and/or PTSD from the induction, pay for formula when bf doesn't work out because the woman didn't spontaneously labour and the baby was too undercooked to bf properly. Or will he pay for her counselling from an emergency hysterectomy when the unnecessary induction turns into an iatrogenic c-sec which goes pearshaped? I don't think anyone is opposed to Obs having a life, but having a life at the potentially fatal expense of their clients ought to result in being struck off. The woman was given no warning or any kind that this was coming. Just bang on the 39 week appt he tells her. Unbelievably appalling :( I know you share my horror!
J
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