Hello, just checking in before I go back to sleep, had a baby girl on 2nd Dec weighing 8lbs exactly!
My active labour was recorded as 1 hour 23 minutes 
Things started off at 11:00am, I had one contraction every 15 minutes until 12:00pm. Somehow on the second contraction I 'knew' it was the start of labour so I called DH at 11:30am to let him know. We agreed to wait until 12:00pm and make a decision whether he should come home from work or not.
At 12:00 I called DH and asked him to come home from work. I had 2 paracetemol, toast and got in the bath.
The contractions increased to once every 8 minutes whilst I was in the bath. From about 13:00pm the contractions were about 5 minutes apart.
DH got home at 13:15 and we agreed he would go and pick up DS from nursery, bring him home and leave DS with DM and then we would go straight to the hospital.
We left for the hospital at 14:00pm and arrived there at 14:20pm. There were no car parking spaces for DH to drop me off so I did 'the walk' again from the car park to the maternity building. Last time with DS, DM was convinced I was going to give birth in the car park 
A lovely lady helped us for the last part of the walk and helped us into the lift as I had to keep stopping frequently for each contraction.
I was examined on arrival and 8cms dilated. I was asking for gas and air as the pain was very intense. I was only in the midwife led unit for about 15 minutes when my waters broke, and there was meconium in the waters. I was transferred straightaway upstairs to the normal labour ward and delivered a lovely baby girl at 15:23pm.
The birth felt very different to DS's, I think once my waters broke the pain was too intense, too quickly so I was struggling to breathe though the contractions. Also DS was born in a birthing pool and I made no noises and felt everything happening. This time I felt quite out of it and didn't feel in control. My midwife was excellent though and had a great voice, I could hear her voice and DH's through the pain and I tried to listen and do what they were telling me to do. I was pushing for 9 minutes apparently and DH and the midwife had a leg each to push open as I think I was trying to shut my legs!
As soon as baby was born I could feel myself coming back to planet earth! I had an injection to get the placenta out quickly and DH cut the cord. I had skin to skin straightaway which was brilliant.
I couldn't stop shaking afterwards, the midwife said this was just the adrenaline and it stopped after about 10 minutes.
I have a second degree tear (again), but that's fine, I will look after it and hopefully it will heal up fast!
I managed to breastfeed whilst we were kept in hospital overnight and for the first 24 hours. Once we got home I decided to move onto formula feeding as I thought I'd only do the first one or two breastfeeds. My nipples are cracked and sore, and although I know it can be overcome, I'm happy to formula feed as I feel much more confident and I am enjoying my baby.
DS has been brilliant! He just woke up a short while ago asking for rice cakes and wanted to sleep in bed with me so that's fine. I'm concentrating on giving him lots of cuddles too and lots of praise for him!
DH was absolutely amazing once again! Even though it was such a different birth experience to the first he was very calm and having his voice helped me through the worst of it.
Sorry it's a huge post, but nice to write it all down!