Hi brookers
I've not had time to read through all your posts, but I wanted to tell you all what happened not least because maybe writing it out will help me get my head around it too! I hope this is ok :)
As you know, on Sunday I thought my waters might be leaking but they dried up so I didn't do anything about it til Monday morning and I got told off by the MW too 
On Monday I had a small show, but it was a bit green tinged - just a bit snot coloured - and the day assessment unit wanted me to come in and get checked out incase it was meconium.
We went and I had an exam, and the MW couldn't see any waters or show. I was put on a trace, though, which showed the baby's heart rate was dropping intermittently, plus my blood pressure was high. This, combined with the leak and greeny show and the fact I was overdue meant they decided to induce.
Pessary went in about 2pm; it came out several hours later when I was 2cm as I was "hyper stimulated" but by midnight I was fully dilated and in agony (thank god for my tens machine, those things are amazing!) as well as throwing up constantly to the point where it was just acid coming up alongside any oral medication they tried to give me (DH said I made his nights on the town look pretty tame :o ), and so I practically bit their hand off when they offered me an epidural! It took an hour or so for him to arrive, then it took the poor chap 40 minutes to get it sited (I have a back like a black and blue pincushion, but it was such a relief when it was working even though coverage was patchy).
MWs then broke my waters shortly after - my times get a bit hazy here, I can't tell you how exhausted I was; I was catnapping passing out between contractions 
- so some time in the early hours of Tuesday. Loads and loads of meconium came out in my waters.
An hour or so later (and I seem to recall it was daylight by this point) they got me to start pushing but baby wasn't budging - I honestly don't know whether this is because I was so exhausted (plus I'd thrown up so much that it meant I'd not really eaten in over 24 hours) and just not giving it enough welly or because the baby was back to back or a combination of both. They finally got me into theatre (with a spinal this time, which went in first try thank goodness) and they tried ventouse once, but baby was too far up the birth canal so it was straight to EMCS - they even had a struggle getting her out by CS, she was really wedged in there they said, so I'm a bit battered now - and baby was finally delivered at 12.01pm, weighing 7lbs 7.
As you can probably tell from the tone of my description, I'm still a bit shocked over it all - it was just so not what I had anticipated, you know? I don't feel I need a "debrief" as I'm pretty clear about why it all cascaded the way it did - it was just one of those things, and all the staff were all absolutely stellar I get the impression we may be the talk of the ward for a day or two - but I think it'll take a while to get my head around it.
So all in all it was a real car crash! I think I'm going to keep my birth plan just to remind myself that men plan while gods laugh and all that 
:o My little girl was 100% worth it, though, and if I had to do it all again tomorrow I completely and totally would, without a second thought. She's been a star since since she was born - she'd have slept through the first night if we'd let her (hospital recommend waking every 6 hours for the first 48 just incase there are blood sugar issues), and she's not been a real crier either. She seems to have escaped any real birth trauma :o :o
I'll go and pop some photos on my FB in a mo :)