I completely agree with Ant, the Brierley Midwives are just as good as having a private midwife, and they can either deliver you at home, or travel with you to hospital and deliver you there if you need to - as far as I remember. The Brierley midwives are fierce advocates for their women, and have a good working relationship with the hospital staff. Kings Neonatal ITU is a wonderful place, babies are born in Kings from all over the world in order to avail of their care at birth. They do pioneering surgery and other procedures there which are not possible anywhere else. It is so reassuring to be so close to a unit like that when you are pregnant. I am a healthy person, and never expected to have a sick, premature baby, but these things can happen to anyone. My daughter was premature, arrested three times, and was ventilated for over a week at Kings. Our birth plan didn't come to pass, but at least we did not have to treck accross the country to visit our little girl in some far away place like Cardiff - which is the equivalent distance some people must travel to see their new baby at Kings. I found it a huge reassurance having Frederick Still ward just up the road. On the subject of prams, I have had a Phil and Teds double buggy for almost four years, and it was simply liberating to discover it. I never anticipated having two children so close together, but when you have one - you somehow suddenly believe two is a great plan, and you end up pushing a double buggy. The double buggy I had initially was like a bag of bricks, too long and cumbersome. The Phil and Teds is great because it is a super single pram, and grows with your family to the most agile and lightweight double buggy of all. We had to get ours specially imported via an internet site from New Zealand, but now they sell them in Soup Dragon on Lordship Lane! You really should take a look. I have turned mine back into a single buggy now as my five year old is walking everywhere, and my little one likes a snooze when we are out. Good luck.