I did - like you, I had an exact visualisation of how I wanted - no, how I thought each part of it would be.

And it wasn't anything like it, but that was ok, I didn't freak out because it was different. I was more annoyed that I had to be on the bed - I really wanted to be mobile - I didn't have any thoughts of 'this isn't how it's supposed to be!' or anything.

I'm a little bit disappointed now, but again, not in how it differed from my ideas, only in the things that I could have changed ITMS. For example, once my waters broke & she moved into the birth canal, I didn't have to be on my back, but no-one thought to tell the midwife, and I wasn't in a frame of mind to think about it.

What visualising it did for me was to make me feel more relaxed about it, I was looking forward to my labour. I think you always have at the back of your mind that things might go differently - but if it gives you something positive to focus on then that's a good thing.