Posted on behalf of uphilldowndale, who is having trouble logging in at the moment. Not many babies are born before arrival, (but it does happen, I know, I am looking at one right now! And the ‘men with the gas and air’ did a fine job of delivering him.) But when it does happen it is pretty scary for all concerned and two lives are at risk. But I was wondering if the reason so many women and their partners (who panics the most?) think normal labour warrant’s an ambulance is to do with the way in which maternity care has become so very clinical, and has stepped away from being seen as the natural process that normal delivery is? Have we got to the stage that women in labour just give up taking responsibility for them selves? Answers on a post card please.