Fletch, I thought of that but Yasin isn't very stoical - if he's getting upset we'll know about it and he'll just be taken away. The freind I'm thinking of asking to look after him during the labour is really level headed and would get him out of the room without panicing him IYKWIM. Yasin is really fond of her and if I didn't trust her to be on the ball I wouldn't ask her. I think that we would probably arrange some sort of code before hand so that DH or I could ask her to take Yasin away without putting it in those exact words.