I absolutely agree with you LG... People are quite rude when they find out what my labor was like and say 'gosh, she just fell out' or 'how lucky you are to have an easy labor'. They say it like it didn't even hurt or I haven't earnt my medel as a woman because I didn't experience a 30 hour labor and have a tear down to my knee or something. I almost feel ashamed to talk about it now with my experience to peoples reactions.

I do feel very grateful that my labor went very smoothly, but I think a great deal of that was because I remained calm and also did some preparation. The MW told me that short labors are very intense and our bodies were working extremely hard - What took others 20 hours to do, our bodies did all that work in 3 hours!