If children are familiarised with the planned birthing space - weather it is a birthing suite, birthing centre. This helps to make children feel comfortable. Familiarising children with the birthing place prior to the birth is very important.

Yes, Caro times have changed and the medicalisation of birth has meant that many women don't even consider other children at their births an option. I for one think that this is not a change for the better. My youngest child at 15 months relished in the birth of her sister. Her chubby little hand on her new born sisters head seconds after birth is a memory and a photo that is among my most treasured of possessions. Lucy refers to it as the first time she met her Eva...