Am I CRAZY?

[pol25]

Had baby one in Sept 2004 and was pretty easy, went into labour three days before due to be induced and started at two pm on Friday- bit peeved as missed murder she wrote, yes I know thats sad!
Drove to station at 9pm to pick up partner and contractions were two mins apart- god knows what police would've said or insurance if anything had happened!
Went in to hospital at midnight and had an epidural which did NOT work, and spent most of early hours biting on to the gas and air for dear life!
DP fell asleep for a while- ahem made me furious!!! But jarred him awake! By 5 am wanted to push, and had my daughter at 5:31am!
After my waters had been broken for me and I had cried begging the midwife to get it out!!!
This time i'm eager to have my baby and go into labour! Am I CRAZY?!!!???
Just feel although I was in pain and it hurt like hell and just did not know what to do to stop it, it did end and I coped!
and best of all I had a beautiful baby at the end of it all.
Am I crazy or is this normal!?

hello

i feel the same way too.

i had the average 12 hour first time labour...

most painful experience i had ever gone through but of course the most rewarding.

i am 30 weeks pregnant now and i am actually looking forward to going into labour as although it is painful it really is an amazing experience.

and of course i cant wait to see the little person that will be handed to me at the end of it

pol25 - no your not crazy - I was in labour with dd for 18 hours and epidural didn't block and it ended in an EC. I knew right away that the next time I wanted to try vbac - I was desperate to have a vaginal birth, my consultant agreed but 3 weeks before my due day was told I had to have an elective section as I had developed polyhydromnosis, I was devistated!!

Anyway everyone told me that I was being selfish to feel like this that it was for the safety of my baby, but I just kept praying that I would go into labour myself (I was 10 days late and induced with first) and that nothing would happen to the baby (but couldn't tell my family that I was thinking like this)anyway the night before my section, a week before my due date, my waters broke and we had to rush to the hospital and after they had made sure that the cord hadnt came down or the baby hadn't turned they allowed me to labour - it was like hell on earth and I was saying that I couldnt beleive that I had prayed for this to happen again, anyway laboured for 9 hours and then sectioned again and after it was just so happy that the pain had ended didnt care that it was a section this time.

BUT if I ever had another baby I would still like to labour and I swore I would never again - but I DO!!