Thanks Cookie! I'll enjoy having a read.

Truth be known I will be happy to have as natural birth as possible, but I have a very worried husband. (Bless his heart) His best mates wife had one of those terrible experiences where everything that could go wrong did go wrong, haemorraging, blot clots afterwards travelling to her lungs, bad tearring etc, and he is frightened whitless that he may lose me, and given that I had to work hard to get him to agree to have a family in the first place I have to consider his fears as much as possible.

Bearing this in mind if I did go private I would want it to be in a public hospital where there was good access to emergency facilities if necessary!