Hi ladies!
I'm extremely late to the party here, but I hope it's OK for me to join this thread...
I had a home water birth with my daughter back in March 2010 - I turned down induction at T+12 and went into labour naturally just past 42 weeks and my daughter and I had a wonderful, calm and positive birth experience at home.
She was born into our la bassine birthing pool at 42+3 (or 40+17, depending on how you like to put it!) with my husband right beside me and 2 NHS midwives present for the last 2.3 hours of my 53 hour (from first contraction) labor. She weighed 7lb 8oz and has been breastfeeding since that day almost a year and a half ago. She's now a very energetic, chattering 18 month old and I still feel so proud to have followed my instincts and given birth to her at home.
I wrote my birth story when she was a month old... but it's a long 'un!!!
We've been trying to get pregnant with #2 for the past year, and it's not proving an easy journey, but hopefully sooner rather than later I'll be planning homebirth number 2.
Anyway, looking forward to chatting to other homebirthing mummies.
also do you have more than one option tap wise. Like a cloakroom tap or bathroom rather than kitchen for example. The hoses they supply are long to run from another floor even in a good sized house 
We already have secondhand birth pool in a box (mini) and a new liner for it but need to get some other bits and pieces, like tap adapters for the hose pipe, and i'm guessing a sieve of some kind...
Any other suggestions for what to have to hand?
I was so excited but it just seems to be the teacher reading from the workbook we dont have even enough room to sit let alone do exercises and there are 3 other couple who are all older then us (we are a military family they are doctors and lawyers and at least 7-8 years older we are around 25 ) and honestly I dont feel comforatable. The classes are for 2 hrs on Thursdays for 12 weeks and we have already had to reschedule class 2 times the first was due to the instructor being sick the second was because the other couple needed to see a concert which was a lil rediculas. We hired a doula but I was sure we needed these classes to have a successful natural birth but Im not so sure now it seems like a waste of money any advice would be great!
