I've just gone off drugs even more! A friend who was very, very pro-drugs during her pregnancy gave birth at the weekend (huzzah!) - she has a lovely baby boy. But I know the hospital here would have loaded her up with drugs, as requested, and she needed the baby sucked out with a vacuum pump. I do not want any intervention at all, certainly not my baby being pulled out because I'm out of it: the more I hear the less I want drugs.

I know I could end up changing my mind, but the hospital here is so pro-intervention, even with my "normal" friends (not the high-risk obstetric clinic patients) have all had some sort of intervention. I am avoiding this hospital like the plague when it's my time! I am not running even the slightest risk that they manage to bully DH into making me have intervention for my baby.

Also, Zoe, I've been reading all the books too! They're fab and I'm not at all scared about giving birth in the abstract, just don't know what it's going to be like so it's sort of exciting and scarey at the same time, like a new rollercoaster or something! Pregnancy yoga seems to me a bit of a waste as it's all stuff I can do standing on my head anyway, but I'll include it in my workouts and life anyway.