oh my, am i the only one who is terrified!!??

this is my first - i think its just the fear of the unknown - but i dunno!
or its because everyone tells me the horror stories (why do they do that???)

eeek!
No not at all! I was very terrified before my DD arrived, I was being induced and spent a lot of the days leading up to it in tears. I don't think it was the pain as such that scared me, just the unknown, the enormity of the situation, how well I would respond to it, lots of little things. On an intellectual level I knew that getting a baby out was the purpose of these fat ol' hips I've been 'blessed' with and that millions of women do it and survive, but on an emotional level I was crapping myself. I could rationalise all I liked and people could say what ever they could to reassure me but at the heart of it, it wasn't cracking that emotional response.

I think this thread shows that if people can do it once and be very keen to do it again - it must be not only achievable but also rewarding! Also I think that my fear was all happening on an emotional level and once labour kicked in my head went into a different zone (the knuckle down and JUST DO IT zone) so I wasn't really focusing on that emotional part of my brain any more so it kind of dulled the fear down to a much better level.