C-S birth. The lifting / moving / carrying difficulty was the issue for me, even though I was up and moving very soon after and had minimal pain and a complication free recovery. I couldn't get out of bed or sit up in bed to feed my son without pain and difficulty for the first few months.

Caitlyn was an inducted VB - horrible, painful on so many levels and a torture. Not the least because I was delivering my dead baby. I would avoid an induction at all costs - it was hell. But that may just have been my experience.

DS was a beautiful labour (breech) until he required and emergency c-section but the labour was slowly increasing, manageable and empowering compared to my first birth. DD was a VBAC - and it was heaven. Intense, primal, expulsive - but heaven. Those wonderful hormones - aaahhhhhh I was up and showered soon after her birth - I even welcomed visitors within the hour!!! Even the second degree tear was nothing in comparison to the c-section.