So glad your scan went well Shell! Can't wait to find out whether next week shows twins! Would you be happy if it was?
You're all so brave thinking about homebirths, I have been really lucky with my last two. Pretty quick labours and no pain relief other than acupuncture and hypnobirthing techniques that I learnt on a CD. The hospitals over here are pretty good and you get a room to yourself and your own bathroom. I think I am just paranoid something may go wrong if I stayed at home, the maternity hospital is just over an hours drive away so not like I can just nip there. With ds2 they picked up on the GroupBstrep so I had to have antibiotics during labour to ensure he didn't get poorly, so I don't think a homebirth would be an option for me anyway. My biggest fear this time is that it all happens so fast that I don't get to the hospital in time! I haven't had painful contractions with either of my last labours until about 2 hours before they were born, with ds2 the midwife didn't even check me when I got to the hospital as she said I clearly had a long way to go. She was busy doing something in the room and I said I need to push, she looked at me with a 'I don't think so' look on her face as she had checked me about 10 minutes before and I was 7cm dilated. Dh said 'erm I can see the head' and suddenly she went white and started dashing around, a few other midwifes came in and literally about 2 minutes later ds2 was born! I think because I was quiet and not screaming my head off she just thought I must be exaggerating!
