Good one, Relle It makes such a difference when your caregivers are on your wavelength! My birth centre pretty much operates the way most of my plan read, so I wrote it as a formality and more to confirm to myself what I wanted - and they made me stick to it, for the labouring at home bit, and I'm so glad they did! The bits that did not line up with BC policy were only there in the case of transfer and I asterisked those with a note to say as much (i.e. annotated with "in the case of transfer to the ward").
I can't believe that I missed the transition cues - I was underestimating where I was the whole time and must have thought that I was still dilating and that as a first timer that's why it was so intense - duh!