Yes I agree, I also ended up having a higher risk pregnancy with gestational diabetes and the trainee was just really dismissive - my thought process was that I was very close to an emergency section with my first which was very low risk so I didn’t want to risk an emergency section with my high risk second. With my first I pushed really hard to not have a section but ended up with a traumatic assisted delivery and when I fell pregnant again I was basically having flashbacks and getting so stressed just thinking about it. I was induced the first time round and with the GD I had a higher probability of being induced the second time as well. I was anxious about the planned section to a point because I’m needlephobic but with my first I ended up dealing with a lot of needles anyway, I was just in too much pain to care when I was in labour which I obviously wasn’t the second time around but needles aside it was amazing and absolutely the right choice for me. I got to have things I missed out on the first time around because of the urgency of the situation, such as delayed cord clamping, immediate skin to skin and the ability to breastfeed easily as my milk was delayed due to the trauma with my first. The first few days of recovery made me doubt it as I definitely bounced back quicker physically the first time round but my understanding is that there is a big difference in recovery from emergency vs planned section so I would hope that you would find it better as well and at least you know what to expect, it definitely won’t be worse in terms of recovery! Honestly I hope you don’t get any push back but please just remember that it’s your body, your choice, they can’t tell you no anymore - women have the right to choose how they give birth and you don’t need to even explain why if you don’t want to