I guess I saw how the hospital setting wasn't what I was looking for and I knew the money was worth it second time around.
So true.

There was a bench in my backyard that i leaned on during contractions, while hanging out the washing , and whenever my DS sits on this bench it makes me smile. The arrival of a new brother was also easier on DD because it wasn't accompanied by an absence of her parents. i put her to bed and she woke in the night to a new baby, went back to sleep and then came to the family bed in the morning to check him out again.