I can relate to your excitement. I'd love to give birth again, so much so that I volunteered the other day to labour for a friend of mine who was very scared and due any day and I was serious. I really would have done it for her if it had been an option!! It's all relative I guess and it does depend on your experiences and how you resolve them. I had a pretty rough birth with DS but for ages I've been looking forward to doing it again (and differently). Now that we look like not being able to have more kids I'd give nearly anything to be pg and give birth again. I wouldn't even care if it ended in another emergency c-sect.

So you're not alone, but that fear your friend/family member was projecting is really common too.