The thing that is best is that I feel so much more confident about this now, when I was in labour with Matilda I felt like I had no options, I didn't know that you could say "No" or compromise. Now I know and I have a "team" behind me. I know that I will either have you or a different birth attendant with me on my "team" as well as DH. So I feel so much better being able to say... Okay you can put the monitor on for now, or I need to move now etc etc... without feeling like I don't have the choice.

I can only imagine what it is like for other women who feel like they don't have that choice, that policy = must do...