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So, you’ve had the official version of birth. And we hope you will end up with one. But it is equally likely that your labour will have quirks and kinks all of its own. Many of the women we spoke to for this book used words like ‘panic’ ‘excitement’, ‘confusion’, ‘fear’ or even ‘demoralisation’ when talking about their first experiences of labour. Most said that much of what they learned in their childbirth classes seemed inadequate on the day. They felt they’d not been ‘warned’ in advance of how painful, difficult and confusing labour could be, or how it could deviate from the ‘safe’ pattern they’d memorised. So here goes.