yeah, my contractions never got "regular" at all - not in 78 hours!

the 2.5 hours of pushing was all with a midwife and a student there, coaching.

a c-section was never suggested, but was mentioned a couple of times in the context of "if xyz doesn't work, we may need to consider a c-section."

"progress" seems to be a very grey area ... at one point, the dr said I was 3-4cms, and the midwife said I was 6!! so not sure how they determined whether I was progressing or not ...