I think its up to you if you want him to stay.....I go to a small country practice style hospital and visitors are out be 9 unless its all happening. I was a bit nervous about dh leaving but in hindsight it was a full on day and he had a good 5 hours sleep in his own bed, so he was a little more relaxed than I was.

This time however Im not going in overnight, I was bumped that day as well went in at 8 for an internal got monitored and then someone came in to do it naturally so I got pushed to 3pm........this time if it happens dd will be taken care of and I will be there at 7 or 8 ready to go......yeah right

I dont know if this is relevant but I forget to put it in the earlier post, but I ended up on the Syntocin!!!! drip as well for the last couple of hours as my contractions hadnt progressed then it was all systems go.....I dont know the rules of induction but you may still need that (and as I recall that was the "if I talk about more children slap me poleease"pain)

Im getting excited for you, not long left