on the subject of wanting a last minute transfer: i read this birth story from
www.homebirth.org (a woman named Julie Kennedy under the hypnobirthing homebirth stories section) and it really made me chuckle
"Finally about 2.00am I got very upset and cried and said I couldn't stand it any more and we would have to get up and go into hospital and I would have an epidural. It did cross my mind at this stage that the symptoms I was showing were almost exactly like those of transition - but obviously I couldn't be in transition yet as the contractions were too far apart and not painful enough .
Thankfully for me, Donald was much more in touch with what was really going on than I was, and he guessed straight away that I actually was in transition and that things were about to move into the final stages. When I told him my plan to get up and go into hospital he said 'OK that sounds a good idea - let's get up, get dressed and go and have a picnic on the floor of the lounge'. For some reason I didn't see any conflict between my plan and his, and I agreed to do this without any further fuss. He told me afterwards that he was convinced that if he could get me up and some food into me I'd be fine for the rest of the labour. As it turned out he was completely right."
i love it...thats the kind of mad conversation i could see myself having with my DH mid labour..me saying something like i give up and we should go to hospital and him convincing me i actually suggested a carpet picnic!
