My experience was very similar to sloane, right down to the drip but because of +GBS.

I agree if you can refuse constant monitoring that is best, maybe they could check every half hour or so so see how bubs is going??

I used telemetry, it was quite the day DS was born and I used all 3 units they had, problem is they keep falling off and having to be adjusted. The one saving grace I had, so that I didn't have to have wires, was the student midwife, who basically was on the floor with me holding the monitors in place and moving them as necessary.

My biggest fear was that if I was hooked up to the machine with wires, they would force me to labour on my back, ouch.

i pride myself on getting through the labour with just gas & breathing, I don't want an epidural, which is what would have happened had I been on my back.

If telemetry is not an option for me this time, i will be making the suggestion to just check routinley, rather than constantly.