i'd be staying at home for as long as I was comfortable ITMS. with DD my waters broke, rang the hossy, they told me to come in...private and high intervention rate...and didnt let me go home. didnt have contractions until about 5 hours after arrival. it was not pretty being in labour on your own with them refusing to call DH (because of insurance issues of having an extra person in your room at night (???!!!)).

IMO, if all is well with you and as long as you dont have IE or a bath etc then i would be staying at home. the ideal would be to wait until you are in established labour just so there is less risk of intervention and labouring to a 'time limit'.

good luck, look forward to the BA!