The best thing I learnt was to always say "Can we have 5 minutes to think about that" whenever a doctor wanted to do anything/perform intervention. Our fantastic midwife made us say it out loud during the lessons. At the time I thought it was pretty silly but on the big day I was so glad I remembered it!!! My doctor wanted to hurry things along, but once we asked for our 5 minutes we spoke to the midwives who agreed I was doing really well on my own and we told him "no". Bubs was born with no interventions whatsoever (apart from gas), it was a fantatic birthing experience, even though he was posterior.

I wish I had of remembered those wise words for birth of DS2. I will be hammering it into my head for #3!!!