Bingo. Along with the hormones of pregnancy comes emotional lability / being hypersensitive to everything, but the people on the wards know that if they've ever been pregnant in their lives.

I've done it before, but i've never done labour before - i went straight from early labour to a booked c/s so i've never been in 'real' labour. Its kindof scary, really, and i'm a bit out of my depth in sayoing this will happen or i won't allow that, etc, so having someone who knows how it all works and can tell me to calm down, its coming, etc, will be a good thing, oh yes.