I know I don't have to (or shouldn't have to) feel grateful...I know I had a normal physiological birth. I still feel grateful that I was able to experience what I did. I'm a strong believer the 'system' often let's women down...it's not women that are 'failing' at all. I was very nervous about having a hospital birth after planning a homebirth, so yeah, I feel grateful I was not caught up in the big machine that hospitals can be, and was able to birth the way I had always imagined