My very first birth was my neighbour who was having her fourth child, and was contracting. Her husband was unable to be with her, so she came to my home. We went to the hospital. The midwife was not very supportive and thought we had come too early. She left us with a student midwife, which was not hospital policy at the time. My neighbour held me saying she wanted to push. I told her to follow her body. From her waist to her feet, she was covered.