Thanks for your replies girls - I guess it's like everything else, there's a range of experience and reactions to discussing this topic with people you don't know very well.

Lori I think I am the same. I just see it as a really personal issue (for any woman). Even when I was pregnant, I didn't want to hear other people's experiences in minute detail. It was too much information from people I'm not close to. If you're close to someone, it's different I think, if they want to talk then I'd be happy to listen.

I do need to accept that people will ask, stop feeling surprised about that and come up with a response that I am comfortable with. The person I was asked by today did not take my earlier 3 hints (being vague and general and changing the subject) and came at it again a couple of hours later to ask "so what exactly happened". I'm putting that down to her being a bit insensitive and nosey. And I still didn't answer her except to say "lots of stuff happened".