Natural childbirth: whose birth plan is it anyway? - The Sunday Telegraph 25th May 2008

With the trend for 'natural' childbirth growing and a government setting targets for home births, are British women really free to choose how they'd like to go through labour, or must they bow to a new earth-mother ideology? Julia Llewellyn Smith talks to three mothers with very different views When Hannah Hancock was pregnant with her first child she was keen on the idea of a drug-free birth. But, like millions of women, when labour pains kicked in, ideals were abandoned. 'It was a long labour. At first I was on an oxytocin drip, then on pethidine, and a few hours later when they asked me if I wanted an epidural I was shouting, "Give it to me now!"'

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