PZ you're the reason so many of us can espouse home birth as low risk, because you were responsible and transferred as a safety measure when things weren't 100% perfect. Tbh I might have done the same with my first baby.

As it was, I did go into hospital for monitoring with dd before coming home. I wish I could erase that experience because it was ****ed. It was nearly midnight on Christmas night and I was being bullied into an induction and was forced to stay hooked up to the ctg for three hours! But I'm also glad I did it, because it meant I felt safe to birth at home in the way I did, 'knowing' all was ok.

Who knows if you would have been secure enough in yourself to achieve a great birth if you were stressed about the mec at home? So many factors come into play in a birth, and I think for you the hospital setting might have been exactly what you needed for dd's birth. Each birth is unique...and we all aim for the best case scenario and plan for the worst....what happens in the end is something in between.