Wow Cass. So they obviously didn't try to wheel you straight in for a C/S then? Bub was still going to be OK for that little longer while you laboured?

I agree - I am happy to be monitored, I want to know bub is OK. I'm just hoping that I am able to be monitored & also move around. I don't want to just lay there...
Nope, he said it was better and faster for bubs to be vacuum assisted than to wait for c/s to be set up. I was only at the hospital for approx 45 mins before he was born and that included the time it took to get into the room, have the monitor fitted and everything. I could've moved around just not in water with the monitor..that is if all was fine and they were also happy to do intermittent monitoring if he was ok on the initial monitor. I will be forever eternally grateful for this little bit of protocol in my case.