I had a vaginal birth, 6 hour established labour (WEEKS of pre-labour) and had Gas. I felt overwhelmed and in shock - this is who was inside me for 8 months? Wow, he's so small! What, he came out of there? Nooo??? We have 4 weeks left of pregnancy to go, and he's here?
I just held him to my chest and couldn't stop looking at him, couldn't believe he had a mop of dark hair, just utter disbelief! I was another who couldn't sleep, every little fidget or noise he made, I thought he was choking or something. He then had lots of issues re: feeding and jaundice and ended up in SCN, the hardest thing is to leave the hospital without your baby.

Physically, I felt like everything was going to fall out. I had an episiotomy and the stitches were hell. I hated getting out of bed at all, and showering was the worst thing I could think of. When I did finally have a shower (about 3 hours after birth) I nearly passed out from the exhaustion and exhilleration. I felt dizzy for 2 days and still didn't want to get out of bed. By day 5, I could hardly feel my stitches.