I'm a weirdo...
I'd love to go through pregnancy/labour/birth again, but I don't want another child... :/
I know labour hurt, but I don't really remember it... I just remember being achy and tired.
I had no labour warning... Fine one minute, huge contraction the next, straight in to five minute intervals. After speaking on the phone to labour ward, I was in hospital half hour after my first contraction (it's a 3 minute drive), monitored for half hour when I got there, told I was at 4cm and wheeled round to delivery. Less than 3 hours after that, my boy was here.
I remember by the time I got to the hospital I was shouting for the drugs, and once I'd been monitored and got onto the G&A I threw it at OH and asked for the real drugs, got pethadine, and felt no pain after that. My issue was my back was buggered from lugging him round like a little old lady for the last two months, so pushing ached like a beast, but apart from that, and being awake nearly 24hours at this point, I was fine.
I just remember it being like immense period pain until I got drugged. Xx