Have you thought about a private midwife? You can get such wonderful, nurturing care and physical and emotional support that you don't get many other places You need to feel cared for and nurtured - if you birth feeling unsupoprted and isolated it's not going to be a good thing and the outcome can be effected... I know a fantastic midwife in QLD who usually does homebirth but would do it in hospital too I imagine. She's just beautiful, the way she teats a woman in labour. I wish she was closer or I would definitely be booking her!