Huge congratulations to all you sprogging Martians 
I've been offline for the last 2 weeks as I've felt totally overwhelmed with all the emotions and stuff that's been going on, but James Charles Oisin VonCreamTeas was born at 8.00am, Sunday 23rd March, weighing 7lbs.
We had a really difficult birth with my cervix refusing to open despite days of agonising and frequent contractions. I think we had pretty much all the interventions possible, and I was minutes away from an emergency C-section as James had the cord tightly wound around his neck and his heart-rate was falling dramatically with each contraction. I had an epidural that failed, so had to have a spinal block with a huge internal episiotomy (didn't even know that was possible) so they could reach inside me, rotate James (he was at a weird angle) then pull him out with forceps. Amazingly he had an apgar score of all 9s and came out shouting.
I then had a really traumatic first night with him in the hospital as I was unable to get out of bed or lift him out of his cot 
which made me feel horrible. When we were finally discharged we had a week of James screaming constantly, which I found heartbreakingly awful, and loosing too much weight - I was breastfeeding and despite being told that I was doing everything right and that James had a great latch I just wasn't making enough milk to feed him. Then my milk dried up completely .
However, the midwife team were amazing and told me to switch to formula for the sake of our sanity and his health - instant difference. James in looking much better, is gaining weight and scream much less 
and I'm starting to feel like I can be his mum properly. DH is has been a freaking hero throughout.
My stitches are healing well and my arse is slightly less sore (good old doughnut cushion) but I'm feeling a bit crappy today with a UTI probably caused by catheter damage, got some antibiotics for it.
So not quite the calm birth I was hoping for, but we got there in the end.