Not much of a birth story. Guess I could check my text messages, but it took less than 15 mins from, "I think you should come now" to my midwife to delivering her in the shower while DP had the other midwife on speakerphone! I was having trouble resting through my 10 min apart cx for the hour before. And I had started vocalising through them.

Her waters didn't break until her head was born. No tearing, just a couple of minor labial grazes. Lucky I just finished reading Ina May's midwife stuff and tried to guide her head out with my hands as gently as I could, checking for cord as she came.

I'm completely missing the emotion from DD2's birth but in awe of how instinctively it all happened.

The only hold up was the placenta, which still didn't come after two hours, trying the toilet, having a shower, bfing baby. Nothing. I did the blow on the bottle thing and it dropped right out.