To think this woman should have a home birth if there's a next time?

[AngiBolen]

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/nov/23/gave-birth-in-car-twice-hospital

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Once is unlucky, twice is just careless

This made me laugh

"They said to come straight to the ambulance bay at A&E, where a crash team was waiting."

A few minutes later, the couple arrived at Ashford hospital, and Faye and Scarlet were whisked away. "Then I had to go to find the car park and pay for the parking," says Carl

I know someone who was refused a homebirth on the ludicrous grounds that as her 2nd and 3rd labours were so short, they couldn't guarantee getting a midwifery team out on time - rural area.

Unsurprisingly, DC4 was born in the car parked in a a hotel car park, five minutes before the emergency ambulance arrived.

Never mind booking a home birth, why didn't they call an ambulance?!

I cannot even begin to imagine what it must be like to deliver your own baby on the backseat of a moving car, and I did have one in an ambulance - where they at least have gas! That woman must have balls of steel!

They are so lucky that mum and baby were ok!

It's like Daddy Rabbit on PP littleducks

Why on earth didn't they go to the nearest MLU, the second time round?

One of my friends had a very fast labour and birth with DC2. When she got preg with DC3 I asked her if she would consider a HB "oh no" she said, "I wouldn't want that at all!" DC3 was born in the main reception of the hospital at 3am an elderly male cleaner as the midwife . She's thinking about DC4 and still not keen on the idea of a HB even though every single midwife she's ever spoken to has recommended it!

I gave birth on the side of the road (luckily in an ambulance) on the way to that very same hospital! It's a bloody long way by road from Canterbury to Ashford, even when the roads are clear.

Sadly they closed the birth centre at Canterbury so you have the choice of 2 hospitals that are many miles away, there have been a few born on the side of the road recently :).

My midwife at the time told me I'd have plenty of time to get to the hospital from home, turns out she was very very wrong!