Pink,
Hmmm I can see that this is a touchy subject for some, I'm lucky DH rarely if ever drinks and doesn't go very far and always has a phone! In saying that he travels quite a way for work and is on call, he could easily miss the birth!

Problem is that there are so many varibles and looks like your birth this time will be fairly quick! I'd be putting a phone restriction on him that he needs to have it on if he goes out, surely if you kept ringing someone would hear it!!!!

We just can't win can we!!!!!

Snoopea