OMG thankk you for posting this thread! I was begining to feel like a bit of a freak! This will be my third time in the labour ward, and I am absolutely petrified! It's a stupid and illogical fear - but I still feel it!

Everyone just says 'supportive' things like "you've done this before", etc. And its all true, BUT I am still scared. I think the thing I am scaredest (if that is even a word) about atm, is missing out on having a epidural either because I labour to quickly or the midwives bully me or talk me out of it again. And I must admit that the main reason I have decided to have an epidural after 2 natural births is because I am scared of the pain.

I remember being this way with my second as well.