I agree about the skin - mine was really dry too. Also, because my 2nd stage was about 1.5 hours, I had pushed so hard I had burst lots of little blood vessels on my face! No one else seemed to notice it... they probably looked like little pimples. But when I looked in the mirror before going to bed that night I was so weirded out by my face, LOL!
I was also frightened to push when on the loo... It did feel very different down there for a while.