my SIL had an interesting VERY unplanned home birth for her first (about nine years ago now). She was 29weeks pg and stuck out on a property with her husband because of flooding. He delivered the baby with directions over the phone from emergency services, they then had a midwife and paramedic 'airdropped' in to their property an hour or so after the actual birth, to check out mum and her premmie, and had to wait for flood waters to receed abit before a helicopter could land anywhere to airlift them out. The paramedic found what turned out to be my BIL's wedding ring amongst all the mud near the helicopter - he had lost it 10months earlier whilst working on the farm. My nephew spent nearly two months in the NICU at John Hunter hosipital before he was able to go home.

Personally I am extremely glad my birthing experiences have been relatively non-eventful, I couldn' imagine anything more stressful then what my SIL went through.