I also realised with the first two I had been labouring really well and really regularly. Then we had driven down the road about an hour and a half then everything had stopped both times. And […] I ended up having a drip to kind of keep things going, which wasn’t really how I wanted it to be.
Remote and rural women also have long journeys to attend routine scans. This can involve a whole day of travel to and from hospital appointments, which becomes more difficult late in their pregnancy, where it may be harder for women to drive, or because of caring responsibilities for young children: