I had a few funny moments during the birth of DD. Early on I had an unfortunate moment when I was mid contraction and needed to spew and wee (too many parts trying to point at one toilet at one time!), but wait a minute, that is a lot of wee....called the midwife and said “I was being sick and a lot of liquid came out”. She said my membranes may have ruptured, which is exactly what I thought but for some reason I had decided to tell her by giving her cryptic clues??? Not sure what I was thinking.

Later on the midwife did an internal exam which was probably only 1/2 hour since the last one when I'd been 2-3cm. She said calmly “it's time to ring Dr X” and walked out the room. When she came back in I asked how dilated I was (I didn't know exactly what point they called in the ob) and she said 10cm. I exclaimed “Why didn't some one tell me I was in transition!” I remember the midwife from our classes saying they would know when we were in transition, and apparently I was ****ed off that I'd got from 2-3cms to 10 and not been informed when I was in transition!

After the quick labour my body went into shock and was doing some whole body uncontrollable shaking. I announced to the room "I'm just a bit cold", though DH told me later the heater was turned up high, I was covered in blankets and the others in the room were about to pass out from the heat - err no you are not just a bit cold!