Its never too late to say you want a homebirth at all - the only question mark is whether you will get to register with the midwifery team you want. If you find out who the options are you can register an interest with as many as you like in the hope that you will make it to the top of their list before you give birth. (I phoned and asked to go on the list of my ones at about 14 weeks I think, and was 9th on their waiting list for november births, but then made it onto the list by about 20 weeks, as so many people change their minds through choice, medical need or moving house etc).
lal - I think the deptford midwives do mixed caseload and teamwork now, and which you get depends on your postcode, so although they support HB,if you gert allocated to the teamwork side, they cant guarantee you seeing the same MW every time, or at the birth (at leasr thasts what they told me which was why I transfered away from them, although they are lovely). I was with the Albany and couldn't recommend them highly enough. They are very big on encouragement and`empowerment in coping with labour at home, but are exclusive to kings
The midwifery services at` Tommy's should be able to tell you who their midwifery collectives are and which do caseload vs teamwork. If you are interrested in albany you would have to trasfer to kings if you are in tghe catchment.
I got the impression that sometimes the teamwork MWs are a bit put out because, of course, they have many more ladies on their books to deal with as1:1 care is more intensive/expensive to provide, but then i also think that 1:1 care should be a right on the NHS and therefore the more people that demandit the better.
hope this` info is useful. good luck!