I think I am posting an unanswerable question here but nothing ventured, nothing gained!

Last time I had a hospital birth which I was quite happy with because I'd done lots of reading and worked out my preferences/priorities beforehand. As it turned out, I used pain management techniques until I was about 7cm, then had an epidural, then pushed for more than two hours then forceps.

As it was a posterior labour, I figure that next time if the baby is not posterior, and with the help of a doula, there's a good chance I'll be able to manage drug-free.

I'm also weighing up the pros and cons of a homebirth but want to know what would happen if the baby got 'stuck' as happened last time? Presumably, after a certain point, I would just transfer to hospital?

I know also that I should have been doing lots of stuff to persuade my posterior bub to get into a better position but, what if that didn't work?

Fiona