The trouble is [the road] gets closed quite frequently. It was closed today at [town]. So, I mean I know a mum going down today and I don’t know if she will make it down or what. It freaks me out, and in the winter because I am due in [winter month], you can’t guarantee the snow gates will be open and things, yes, quite scary.
Women worried about timing their journey, the risk of giving birth in a car without support, and wanted to be sure that they would be admitted to the labour ward because they would be unable to go home and return again later: