On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:07:38 +0100, Lobster wrote:

You're saying she went on to have a (presumably intentional) home
delivery *after* that experience...???

Yup. We'd planned a home water birth for the first but between
inexperience of the medical system and lack of midwifery support ended up
in the hospital as described. Second time round SO was even less keen on
the hospital option and we'd found a couple of excellent midwives
specialising in doing homebirths who supported us to the hilt and
helped make it a stress-free and (for SO, relatively) painless experience
(no doubt contributed to by it being stress-free).

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John Stumbles

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous