Oh and I went 42+2 with my first which was a c/s in the end, and 40+6 with dd2. I suspect I would will my body to wait. She is going to a conference in Prague to speak, which is the 1-5th of may. Not sure if she planned to go see family in England before she came back tho.
I'd go with her. She might make arrangements in her absence anyway for another midwife to take over her clients?
And yes, I gathered Mary and the other midwife didn't have the best history, she told me other stories as well. I think Mary is just proud of the system they have going there (2 midwives attending each birth) and it worries her that when other midwives take on too much work or do things like leaving her doula with a labouring client for 12 hours, and then coming back in and saying oh well this isn't progressing off to hospital - that worries Mary that people will have that impression of all homebirth midwives and can ruin their rep so to speak. And I understand that worry, her business is built on reputation really isn't it.
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