Birth stories...

[Firsttimemama3]

Is anyone else obsessed is them or is it just me? xx

Me too! I love to read about the quick relatively pain free births not so keen on the horrific stories people insist on telling me though!
As much as I love hearing about them I no that no 2 births will be the same so it gets me through the horror stories and I know not to expect a quick pain free labour!
As long as baby is ok at the end of it that's the main thing!
How long have u left?

Exactly they're never the same! I've already had him he's 6 weeks old now and its flown by! I just read mumsnet while I'm feeding him haha.
How longs left for you? Xx

I read all sorts. As well as actual stories what helped me was stats re what is likely, as I think more excellent/terrible stories end up online than average birth stories. So you might end up scared or elated.

My birth story is very average in some ways (2nd degree tear, mucusy baby, workin' that pelvic floor now, pooing isn't a bed of roses), better than average in others (super fast, managed with no instruments on gas/air and warm water) and challenging in others (almost TOO fast- speed of urge/pushing caused the tear and apparently intensity aka pain wise like an induction because my body went from Bishop's score of 3 to birth in 4 hours, MW were surprised... plus almost popped out in the cab). So a real mixed bag!
Elements of many stories in there, but mixed up and unique to me.

I realised at my baby shower when 6 women told 6 completely different stories that things vary incredibly widely.
6 women, 8 births, all different but all OK in the end.

Excited PS. Yes the speed made mine painful but something kind of took over my brain and I wasn't scared or traumatised IYSWIM. The pain was very 'then and there' in the contractions and at the time and on some level I knew it was labour pain... weird: like when you have a belly ache and need to poo or vomit (but obvs x1000), they aren't nice but it's 'better out than in' - gross but the only simile I can think of. I can't really describe it but what I mean to say is I am a wuss normally - so whilst not all shorter labours are pain free, and the idea of pain scared me before, I was more scared of not getting to the hospital in time!