Morning berries - just having breakfast, so a very quick birth story update before I go back to my DH and see if she wants feeding again 
So, regular contractions started around 4pm Weds, increasing until I went in to hospital about 1am. At that point, cervix was effaced and I was 2cm dilated. However, once we were there, contractions slowed down and then stopped. So at 4am, we went back home, and I slept until about 10ish. Only a handful more, relatively mild contractions through the morning, then about 3ish, they suddenly got much more severe quickly. Shortly afterwards, my waters broke a bit, and I got a big show, so we immediately set off back to the hospital. Got there about 4, by the time I was assessed I was 7cm already 
, so we went very quickly from gas and air, to epidural plus gas and air, to fully dilated by about 7pm. We then paused to wait for the head to drop a bit further, but after half an hour of that, they weren't happy with baby's heartrate during contractions, so used ventouse and small episiotomy to do the last bit. She was delivered 8:12 - so about 4 hrs from arriving at the hospital!
Not necessarily what I would have planned in terms of intervention, but I was happy with all the decisions as they happened. Gas & air made me super-dizzy, so the epidural helped allow me to make sense between contractions as well. And so far so good in terms of healing. And she is obviously completely perfect