Wow! Excellent story, Linda. Isn't it amazing what life can throw at us? Here you were thinking that you were going to have a very planned birth and look what happened! Good to hear that your experience got better when you left the care of that nasty midwife (I didn't know that you couldn't wear nail polish in theatre either! How would you know if no one told you? Sheesh!).
An amazing birth story! And yay for your DH doing a couple of things that he originally thought he didn't want to do. Good on him!