Relle - that's funny! it was only when I was walking over from the toilet to the bath and realised that there was a head in my cervix that the whole labour caper was over. I just wonder why women emphasise the 'pain' of the birth itself over the labour, because I found myself thinking, during the breathing down phase, that I would rather do that ten times over rather than the labour part!
But now that I've done it, it feels very rewarding - the labour really is working towards something, it's working towards something so lovely it can't really be sufficiently articulated, huh? So, yep, I'd now do labour again the same way - drug free and at home with no-one giving me internals and stats. One other thought process that got me through the labour was "my body is not going to put me through more than I can handle". That was really helpful