Are birth stories REALLY that interesting to other people?

[poodlepusher]

I am just wondering as I was obsessed with my first, and would tell it at the drop of a hat, again and again - but couldn't be arsed to go into the details of my 2nd, just too knackered and wanting to get on with things.

Do you find our own birthing stories fascinating and everyone elses' a drag, or are you interested in the minutae of someone elses' blow by blow account?

That is why I think that it can't quite be as bad as people make out - because they all want to go and do it again!

After I give birth I will happily read all the horror stories, but I want to have a positive attitude going in, I know it will be hard but I don't need to go imagining things that may never happen. I am prepared for it being painful, but I want to be optimistic that I can get through it without anything major going on, because I won't be able to stop the bad bits anyway.

my positive attitude came in part from the fact that i knew my high BP meant that there would be no nice midwife unit for me, i needed the bells and whistles around me. so no birth plan other than 'keep me and dd safe'. and it went gorgeously, it was very sore indeed but never out of control sore, and i loved it. and i did bake an exceedingly good baby... oh that moment when you meet them finally, it's bliss.

no tey are NOT

so be -told- !!!

i nearly died with my first

i gave birth to twins vaginally 6.6 /7.5 and i want a medal

so listen up...a medal - a gold one.

have only read op

but christ on a bike i plan to bore people as often as i can. i do wait to be asked, but boy oh boy, once they've asked...

it was hell. i am a hero. i am HARD

I like listening and hearing other people's birth stories. They are unique experiences and they vary so much. It's a good ice-breaker too.