Olivia Annabel made her way into the world at 40+6, 8.12pm, September 18th 2014, at home. She weighs 7lbs 14oz.
I was contracting once every ten minutes until about 7pm, agonisingly so, but thinking it wasn't active labour as they were so far apart. They had me crying they were so bad, but still infrequent. To the point I put DS to bed at seven, and helped DH clean my bathroom.
Then I was sick into our bin 
. DH put me in the shower and unknown to me got my mum to call my midwife at 7.15. I had said up to this point I wasn't in active labour, they wouldn't give me gas and air, there was no point etc.
DH got me downstairs where mum was trying to fill the pool (frigging two connection didn't work) and I went into some sort of zone of pain in the living room. Lots of crying, groaning, and "I can't do this". I was thinking that if the pain was like that already, what the hell was it going to be like when my waters broke and I was in active labour.
Midwife the lovely Rachel arrived about 7.45, just got down on the floor with me and tried to help me breathe properly. But I couldn't. All I could do was pant and push. Thinking the whole while it was too soon and I was doing it wrong. I was begging for the gas and air and Rachel was hesitant to get it from her car because I was pushing, she had to put DH on guard for a head! She went and got it and that was the final impetus I needed. It helped me breath right, and push out a head. Into my knickers! DH had to run and get scissors and cut them off me. I think it was 2 pushes later and Olivia was born. The lovely thing is, DH saw her born as did my mum.
We did delayed CC and then DH cut the cord. Placenta followed a wee while later after I had to have the injection.
Total active labour was about 2 hours. Pushing was about 20 minutes. No tearing, just a couple of nasty flaps of skin on labia which sting like a bitch, peeing is not fun.
I think I'm in shock. Sat here in bed watching the referendum results, with a 6 hours old baby on my chest. I can't believe I was so lucky as to get my home vbac. I can't believe I didn't realise I was in active labour. 4 hours before she was born I was swimming!
And wee Olivia is half Scottish half English, so somewhat of an historical day for her to arrive.
:)