Thanks, Bathsheba, for the thread, and everyone for your very welcome warm wishes!
Yep, Kelly, between my own underestimations and the slight condescension factor from one MW at the FBC, I was a few steps ahead of where I thought I was the whole time until I was actually in that fabulously drawn tub.
Gotta love a birth plan, too, BTW - the room was perfectly set by the time we arrived!
Will get onto a birth story shortly...
Thanks again