I don't think it is really safer at home, but I don't think it is anywhere near as dangerous as what you would imagine. I suppose there is also the side of being in your own surroundings will help relax you, so therefore it does lead to less intervention which carry risks themselves, i.e. forceps can damage and even crack the babies skull, but a forcep delivery can't be performed at home so there is no risk of the babies head being damaged as a result of that.
There really is no point in worrying about the labour (she says!!) that baby is inside you, some way, some how, she has to come out, it is going to hurt, and it will be messy, but, it has to happen. Once it has happened, I am not going to say you won't remember it because I do, but it isn't where my life ended, if anything it had just begun, and I don't look back on DS's birthdays thinking oh god I was in so much pain or whatever else, I always think more along the lines of he would have been having his first ever feed about now, or that was when we went back up to the maternity unit!
And yes I got to sleep about 2-ish, still woke up for the contractions but went back off pretty much as soon as one finished.
I am going to get some toast or something for lunch, my belly is rumbling away! And I set Sky+ to record that home birth diary thing on Discovery H&H, so I am going to watch that while I eat! I will be back on after though if you are still around?