My local hospital apparently supports homebirth. They have a team of midwives who come to your home. I don't have to hire an IM, which is great for us financially. I like my local mw, who is on the homebirth team.

I am 29+5 and so far, the team rang in November to tell me they'd rather I went to hospital. I said no, explained why. They said they'd contact me before Christmas and do extra visits. Then nothing. I'm chasing up, called Wednesday morning, spoke to the local mw, not mine, who was to contact the hb team and they'd call back yhat day. Nothing. Chased again this morning. Nothing.

Is this normal? What happens when I'm in labour and need to contact the team? Do I call, freebirth, then go see the gp a few days later? Just feel a bit like they want to say tough, no hb team visits, hospital or nothing now. But I do work in a bullying environment and maybe that has affected my thinking.

Any ideas what should happen?