With #1, I was blissfully ignorant in the lead up, but once it started I was terrified and then once things got going it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

#2 was completely different and my best birth I think. I think knowing what will happen made a huge difference to me in terms of positions etc, but at the same time I was scared because I knew kwim?

by the time #3 came round I was an old hand but it was decidedly different and the worst of the three but still with a great outcome in that I didn't have a c/s.