Sadly, my choices were taken away from me by my DH - he'd taken leave and was no way going to let me have the unassisted birth I wanted, then was pushing drugs and intervention with the midwives! I managed to fight off pain relief for 29 hours of labour, and fought off the monitor for most of the time in the labour suite, but wished I'd ripped it off when I was trying to push with it on! They refused my demands to have the machine taken off.

This is why I'm not telling anyone, not even DH, about a future pregnancy, just so I can surprise everyone by producing a baby at home. And gaining weight, of course, that may be a bit of a giveaway. I know you were posting for pro-choice, Julie, and I am that, I just get very upset about the fact I gave in at the end and still feel really bad about it all because I just couldn't put any more energy into giving birth, let alone fighting, for the last four hours.