People were busy yesterday! Congrats Swiss and fatima 
I have a little boy sleeping on me in a milk
induced stupor.
So birth story. Had sweep at midday, started with pootractions at 3 and by 5.30 they were every 1 and half mins and lasting a minute. Went in and was only 2/3 cms but cervix was perfect so MW stretched it to 4cm so could stay. When I got to the delivery room at 6.30 yousefs heart rate had gone from normal to racing and as I had keytones in mmy urine she suspected mine was too. We had to be continually monitored for 30 mins and then they would decide if they were going to break my waters. So I spent nearly an hour drinking coke and eating snickers on MW orders with gas and air. They decided to break my waters which was a massive relief, our heart rates dropped and Yousef was born thirty minutes later. So it was two hours from being admitted to delivery. It was massively intense and quite scary. I was sobbing as I was pushing and afterwards.
However then it took another two hours to get my placenta out. They had theatre prepped but whilst I was on gas and air and trying to imagine myself somewhere else the consultant did the human equivalent of peeling a bath mat off the bottom of the bath!
It was the oddest experience I have ever had and definitely my last but he is beautiful and I got almost three hours of skin to skin afterwards.