It would be really great to see MORE birth centres where you dont have to fight to get in.

It would be wonderful to know that if you DID get into a birth centre that you would have one midwife with you for your journey, not someone who leaves when her shift is over.

We actually wanted to use a birth centre, but didnt get in (too many on the list). Turns out my midwife had actually done several shifts at that birth centre and hated working there - one midwife running around - just didnt sound like the peaceful environment that one would want to give birth in.

And after having had one hossy and one homebirth - I just know that I could never go back. Birthing in a hospital is black, at home is white (in every sense of the word white, pure etc) - its just soooooo very different.