I would have been SO mad if I was offered drugs! I had that in my birth plan- I didn't want them mentioned or even the gas to be visible (fear of medicalisation) and no-one did which was good.

I forgot to reply about emergency childbirth- I guess it can't hurt. For any birth though. We stayed home till I felt like pushing/bearing down last time and I could have had a born-before-arrival baby then but we never prepared for that. I guess my H would call the ambos and they would tell him over the phone what to do?