Dee - I know exactly what you are saying casue I've been there. The whole "natural birthing thing" sort of tells you that if there is any assistance than perhaps you didn't have the full birth experience, therefore do you have the right to say you "birthed" your baby.
I personally have got over the pathetic semantics of people choosing such words. I am AOK with saying my baby was delivered. I didn't decide what time she was born as they wheeled me into the theatre when it became free, and they chose what time she was pulled out.
Of course I pushed along with them pulling, but at the end of the day my baby was well and truly delivered in my eyes. But I choose not to use the words "birthed" in the natural sense of it.
I am slowly getting over the whole expectation of us using warm fuzzy words when it comes to the birthing experience, and my midwives this time around and really helping me here. Everytime I go in I ask all the whatifs, and get the same answer from all of them.
Every birth is different, and you just do what you do to get through, and there is nothing anyone should be able to say to take away from you that this is your child, you "gave birth" to them, and noone else felt your pain or had your experience.
Please dont get tied up in people's silly word choices - what you feel is the most important thing, and whether you had a completely natural birth or a c/s, at the end of the day your child is healthy, and you are recovering.
Pffft to anyone who has a problem with that.