JM i'm the same soon as i get into hospital it all progresses nicely from there. It's almost like i'm in the place i'm meant to birth and my body just relax's and gets on with the job.
My DH stayed at home to look after DS and the midwife picked me up on the way to the birth center. I was really upset that DH wasn't going to be there but in the end I didn't notice. Would have been nice for him to have the memory - afterwards I was o.k with it but he has regretted it ever since.
For me it was such an internal process that I wouldn't have cared if I had been entirely alone or if I had been on stage with a million onlookers. I just did my own thing and I think DH trying to find some way to help would have been distracting!
Sorry i was out when i wrote before but wanted to add:
DP made it to DD2's birth but in all honesty i don't think him being there made a huge difference, he sat in the corner reading his paper until my waters broke, ran and got the midwife and then i KNOW he was patting my head and giving me water (in the whole 7min) but i wasn't paying attention to him, not addressing him or asking him for things so i don't think it would have been a huge deal to me NOT having him there.
You sound very confident hun and you have plenty of people willing to put their hands up should you need someone else there, maybe you can get a support person with a great cap plan to make regular phone calls
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