Induced.
Painful contractions.
1st Epidural - nothing.
2nd Epidural - nothing.
3rd Epidural + spinal block - blessed numbness.
Ventouse delivery in the operating room. Loads of hospital staff.
A very medicalised 'natural' birth.
Loft-living London life was pretty much perfect. Then one sunny spring morning, two emphatically postive pregnancy tests later, my life had changed. I was going to leave work in nine months' time and become a Pad Dad. These are my disconcerting discoveries about pregnancy, fatherhood, and househusbandry.