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I went for a home birth second time around it was brilliant very relaxing with no need for pain releif until they broke my waters and I had meconium in them the midwife said I could still deliver at home but I decided to hold on, the ambulance men came and I was in rather a delicate position with baby's head on its way and they had to get me form the bedroom to the ambulance outside. I held on though and hid under a cover on arriving at Queens Park but baby very nearly came in the lift up to the labour ward. I had a beautiful little girl.We still laugh now about the colour of the ambulance mans face ... id thought they'd seen alsorts and I haven't been put off having a home birth again and would recommend it to anyone even though I didn't quite manage it.