I kind of wish I was OK with having my girls at the birth. I think it could be an amazing experience for them. But I'm pretty sure I would hate it. With my last birth, the kids were sleeping when labour started and we debated about just letting them sleep, but I felt like I would be too worried about them the whole time, and in the end, I was glad that we sent them over to my in-law's house. I want as few people as possible in the room, and I love those first few hours with just DH and me and the baby, before the chaos of the rest of the crew arrives. Plus, DH finds the whole idea of kids at the birth very weird. He's sure they will be traumatized.

Having a lot more pre-labour in the last couple of days. It gets me excited every time, and I have to remind myself that there will likely be days/weeks of this coming yet before the real thing starts. The midwife is coming today for a home visit, which should be good. I wonder how uptight she'll be about having everything prepped exactly as they request on the list. I did most of it with my first homebirth baby, and we didn't use it then, and didn't need it with any of the others since then either.