rotfl about the spitting on the poor midwife ChocolateCatty, that's a classic!

i'm reading this thread to inspire me to do the same as you all have done. My midwife doesn't even carry gas so i won't have a choice anyway, but it's still encouraging to hear you can do it without drugs. I would love to hold my baby, undrugged (the both of us) and to feed straightaway without her too drugged to suck.

I keep telling myself, this is the ideal and i shouldn't get too hung up on ideals in case it turns out differently, hard not to focus on it once you have decided what your ideal scenario is though.

If worst comes to worst and i end up in hospital, i will try and remember what so many of you say, hold off being in hospital as late as you possibly can.