Quick recap on birth stories: 1st-needed a pitocin drip as water broke, labor wouldn't start, never did get an epidural (got demerol and zofran as the contractins with pitocin made me throw up) 2nd kid-finished up work day in labor (I worked at the hospital), went home, waited til contractions got to 5 minutes apart (also waiting on longest pizza delivery EVER for MiL and kid)-by time we got back to hospital I would have killed for an epidural-learned from my young and stupid mistake the 1st time of no epi), nope-baby there before the anesthesiologist. She was born 2 hours after I got back to hospital. 3rd one-miserable entire pregnancy (felt fab with first 2), went into labor sunday afternoon, cleaned house, waited for MiL to arrive, then watched ending of cliff hangar on Grey's Anatomy-got to hospital and had to wait for room-contractions bad at this point and 1st time I had back labor. Did get the epidural this time (sweet relief-and nothing like your experience) but baby went into distress-by the end I had full oxygen mask, internal monitor and NICU resuscitation team in room. He was fine but to go from labor nurse to 20 people was bit scary. We also didn't find out sex of baby with this one so it was a few minutes before we even found out we had a boy!