waves, so glad to see you back. Sorry I've been a bit slack at commenting in the other place
but I've been thinking of you lots.
Gary, congrats on the blue bump! And frog I'm afraid I'd never heard or the harmony test either before it was mentioned on here. Have you thought of starting a separate thread about it?
Guinea, BF and I had a long talk about it yesterday because she went on an interesting MW conference lecture last month in Birmingham and she had been telling me about that (basically about the different types of injections they use for the managed stage should be given at different times and no one seems to know about it).
But then we went on to discuss delayed cord clamping as I saw a thread on here about home births and delayed cord clamping so I wanted to ask her thoughts on having a managed third stage (which I'd prefer, only because I want it over and done with ASAP!) but combined with delayed cord clamping if possible. She said that it is perfectly possible so that's what I'm going to ask for.
But what was interesting was that in the middle of our convo she mentioned that some of the 'more experienced' MWs or complacent older MWs in her hospital give the injection to help the placenta come out once the head's been born i.e. when the baby hasn't even been born yet. She was saying that she'd never do that for a few reasons including undiagnosed twins(!) but also, more seriously, something like shoulder dystocia (where the shoulder gets stuck). If you being the artificial process of expelling the placenta and the baby's not even been fully born, then you can certainly cause problems for the baby if there are any problems between the head coming out and the full birth.
I just took in what she was saying and thought 'yep, makes sense'. So this morning I was discussing having delayed cord clamping for MiniWing but still having a managed third stage and the MW was agreeing but then just dropped into the conversation that "we usually give the injection after the baby's head has been born but we'd wait until the cord has stopped pulsating before we clamp it". Apart from the point that I can't see how a delayed cord clamp really works if they've already give an injection to speed the placenta expulsion, I just thought "nooooo, you are no way giving me the injection before my lovely baby has been born completely 100% safely!!!". 
I did the right thing by nodding politely and thinking "sod that, I'm definitely putting it in my birth plan that I was a delayed cord clamp and the injection to follow"!
I spoke to BF tonight and as I was explaining this to me she knew exactly what I was going to say and completely agreed that my choice (if I want a managed third stage) was absolutely the right thing to do. She was also impressed that I had just silently nodded agreement like an uninformed person but knew exactly that what she was saying isn't a great idea.
Sorry, that was really long!
In other unwelcome news, a child at DS's preschool came down with chicken pox yesterday and DS hasn't had it so I'm currently really worried that hell come down with it in the next two weeks when the baby has been born as it's really dangerous for newborns :(
I've done a lot of googling and it does seem to make a big difference if I'm immune and I did have it really badly as a child so I'm currently trying to decide whether I sit for ages get an emergency GP appt tomorrow morning for a blood test to see if I'm immune, which I probably am, or whether just to let it take its course and worry about it if DS comes down with it. Even then, the baby might not catch it. I don't know what to do - we had family plans for a day trip tomorrow 