Yes, cord prolapse - they check heartbeat to ensure everything ok.

Re infection - check your hospitals policy.

Re : my DD - waters broke 5.30am, rang, told to have a shower and brekky no rush come in midmorning .... they kept me in overnight cos of giving me anti's after 18 hours and then no contractions still by the next morning so had synto to get things going

This time around i knew ALOT more. Waters broke 2.30ish afternoon, rang hospital, come in around 6pm for some monitoring - yep fine with that. They wanted to keep me in in case I went into labour as they were short staffed on ward - ok with that. The thing was, it wasnt the hospital BUT the OB who was on duty that doesnt release ladies after waters have broken and come in (must of had some bad experiences).

HOWEVER next morning no real contractions still, I was asking about going home so I could get some real sleep etc - NEW OB came on at 7am and all the midwives were cheering for me - he let me go home and would give me 3 days as long as I came in every day for monitoring and movements were all felt ok to me etc - with a packed of anti's. I knew I could negotiate this time

Mind you, got home around 10 - had a wonderful loooong shower and jumped into bed for an hour, and contractions started at 3pm and were text book with Zander arriving at 8.55pm.

So whilst hospital policy will be ** hours - depends if you are private/public and the ob on duty or your own etc.

Good luck!