great Q's

its great to be excited...all those postive vibes going to your baby, and giving you wonderful anticipation and positive reinforcement...its pretty hard not to get excited, and really normal...a little bit of adrenaline is fine, and excitement quickly settles as you immerse yourself in the work of labor...im talking totally out of control fear

Ob's are great for complicated, difficult pregnancies, labor/births...I guess you could say having an OB is an insurance against an unknown major hiccup...but...they are trained in all the things that could go wrong, when this so infrequently occurs. It is rare that a baby bleeds back into the placenta...and not really a good enough reason to enforce a medical 3rd stage...in fact it is so much more likely that everything will go fab...as long as you avoid the pokes and prods of well meaning professionals trying to 'help'

xx