Should women in labour not call an ambulance then (if she has no other way of getting to hospital)? 300 yards doesn't seem like a long way, but perhaps if you are extremely pregnant and in agony (I don't know what a contraction feels like, and I'd guess you haven't had one either, but I've heard they're rather painful...) 300 yards isn't such a short distance. Yes, I realize labour is not an emergency in a life-or-death sense, but from reading some of your previous posts, you seem to have a problem with pregnant women requiring an ambulance. I just can't really figure out why. -joanne (joanne@journalesque.co.uk)