Hello post-natal ladies I'm allowed to officially join you now. James Andrew was born at 23:03 yesterday at 6lb 14oz despite being a week late. We had pitched up at the hospital the night before for a check up as baby had gone mental for a while, moving and kicking every which way. They did a trace which was fine and I was somewhat patronisingly reassured that lots if movement was good, only reduced movement was a concern. Fast forward yo yesterday morning, I was woken by a contraction and when I went to the loo there was blood on my pad. Good, I thought, a bloody show. But then I passed a blood clot so I phoned the hospital and they said that was probably part of the show. But a bit later I passed another clot and there was fresh blood in the pad. So I phoned again in a bit of a panic and they said to go in. I was still contracting at intervals from 2.5 to 6 minutes which of course slowed right down as soon as we got to hospital. They did another trace which was fine and when they did an exam about 11 I was only 2cm dilated but they found my waters had broken at some point. So I was told I'd be kept in because of the blood and put on the drip after 24 hours if I hadn't gone into established labour.
Cue pacing the corridors and sitting on the fitness ball for hours, with contractions coming every 5 minutes but quite mild ones. After six they decided to do another trace but this showed decelerations following every contraction. When they did another exam I was still 2cm dilated which was quite irritating. When I mentioned that I was still bleeding fresh blood (they thought the blood was more show) then they decided to do a scan. This showed blood pooling behind the placenta which explained the terrible backaches I had been having. So off to theatre for a section we went! The anaesthetist decided to do a general anaesthetic. Apparently they were just in time because baby opened his bowels just before they got to him so he was clearly in distress. Unfortunately for my DH (I was still out of it at this point) baby got a big dose of drugs and had to go into the incubator for extra oxygen for the first hour or more so poor DH didn't even get baby cuddles for a long time.
So we were unfortunate enough to have a placental abruption but fortunate in that baby James was delivered in good health and is doing well in his first day. It wasn't the planned and expected VBAC but he was really in danger so his safe arrival is all that matters to me. It does mean that if we have a fourth child it will have to be an ELCS but we'll cross that bridge when if we come to it! 
And that's my birth story.