did you enjoy your labour?

[jamakin]

The Birth of my DS was definatley enjoyable, it was a speedy natural birth. scary and a bit painful but absolutly amazing!
It was like a comedy, late night shopping on thursday DH and i were in Borders bookstore him on one side me on the other, i was 39 weeks, when all of a sudden my waters broke in a huge gush!! it was so embarrasing! we ran out of there (proberbly more like a fast walk - in my state!) that was at 7:30pm i wasn't really having contractions so we went home and called the hospital, they told me to have a shower and come in, as i was getting ready i started to get pains like period pain, i didn't even realise that they were my contractions. it wasn't till we were driving to the hospital that they started getting a bit stronger and were now coming in waves - 2 mins apart!! i'm sure DH broke some road rules! They were so busy at the hospital that there were no rooms or labour suites available, i was put into a small consultation room to wait, no one thought i was in labour as i was still talking and smiling (i was excited knowing i was soon to meet our baby) i think they were almost going to send me home. but i insisted on an internal, lucky because i was 9cm dialated!!!! we were going to have this baby soon! that was pretty scary, everything definatley intensified, but i'm kinda glad i didnt have too much time to think about things, natural instincts took over and i just had to follow what my body was telling me to do.
My midwife was absolutley amazing, as was DH, he was very positive and encouraging the whole time.
After an hour of pushing DS was born!! (only 4 hours since my waters broke in borders) it was the most amazing experiance. i have never felt such love, words cant even describe. I was so lucky it was drug free and i had no tearing!! It was a quick labour, hard and painful at times but i would say it was definatley bareable and better than i could ever have imagined.. even enjoyable.
i just hope i'm that lucky next time!

Just realised this sounds like a birth story! - i never did get round to doing one - sorry its so long!