My labour progressed so much quicker [than with (first child)] that I went from what I thought was early labour […] to suddenly being in second stage really quickly […] this was the middle of the night, [the midwife] basically said you just need to get to [local hospital] as quickly as possible. So we did. […] we jumped in the car […] but despite this the baby was born in the car.
Women also worried about the journey home from hospital with the baby during the winter months when the road conditions could be dangerous and mobile phone signals unreliable: