i dont thing i liked it but it was stil amazing.... hmmm where do i start????..i got my first contraction at 5pm which woke me on the sat 2nd. june had a lil bit of a show at 11pm..but my contractions still werent set in presice mins apart i told mum i had to go to the hosi at bout 2.15 i still hadnt slept... the hosi was also 20 ks away so thats why i didnt leave it so long... i got to the hosi and they sed i was bout 3-4cm dialated but she couldnt feel prop so she had to call the doc... the doc came in at bout 6.30am n he was THE BEST gyno EVER he gave me the internal and it was REALLY REALLY painful i was trying to climb off the bed.. and he sed that i had a high cervix and that why i hurt and then he patted me on my knee and said that "we goot a big baby in an awkward position so im going to break your waters soon and then your having an epidural" hmmm... that was interesting to say the least it did scare me a lil bit..then at aroung 12pm (still no sleep this is sunday the 3rd of june) the doc came in and sed time to break your water and i thought that it would hurt as much as the internal did!! boy was i WRONG!!! i screamed that hard that my mum nearly fainted as i screamed in pain...then i wanted to have a shower and the midwives said that would be ok coz the anethesist wouldnt be there fora bit so iust get in the shower and he walks in to give me the epidural!! oh they had already giving me pethedine before they broke my waters not that it helped at all!!! so i sat upright with mum infornt on getting mentally prepared to holdvery still... and all the anethesist could say was that the tattoo on my back waznt centered so i inhaled deep on the gas to suddenly sit straight up and say mum im dying!! mum calmed me down and we tried againg only for the "dying" thing to happen again it was then he midwives realised that the gas was on half and half and that he "dying" was actually me almost fainting!! 4 goes later the epidural was in and i was numb!! 6 hours past and they decided to do an internal nly to realieze that he was halfway down and almost crowning!! thanks guys!! so the it was action station and i was rahter delirious by this stage still no sleep!! coz i was so numb and couldt push the doc literaly had his foot up on the end of the bed pulling out my baby!! and at 6.39pm (26hrs after first contarction) my DS was born weighing in at 8pd 3oz n Very healthy!! me on the other hand had a round 30 stiches n later found out that i had to have an anal reconstruction i tore so much!! it took me 16 mths not to be sore down there....if i have another one i willdef be asking fo a c-section!!!