Rory, you do it at your mum's house and she cleans up after you

That's what I did with Tehya. LOL. She was born at 6.35am and I swear by 9.30am all the washing was down, the pool was drained and washed out and all the furniture was back to normal. There is no way you could tell that a baby had just been born there.

I bought some cheap brown towels from best and less for myself and soem pink ones for Tehya. I still have them to this day, everything washed up just fine (thanks mum) I will be reusing them for this birth too.

Generally though, unless you have a mum like mine, your midwife will do some of the cleaning up along with your partner.