labour from mums point of view

For me it all started about 5pm on tuesday evening. I was having my tea when lower back pain was starting to bother me. I thought nothing of it at first until about 8pm when I text my sister-in-law. She told me thats how she started and told me to get a nice hot bath. This was when I told my partner, and our friend, while they were watching football.
I stayed in the bath for about an hour but the pains got worse and I felt like I had to walk about. I put something comfy on and went downstairs. Stuart was worse than me and kept asking if I needed to go to the hospital. I said no as I felt comfortable at home, leaning on a chair and rocking backwards and forwards to help with contractions.
To keep myself busy I started to put up my christmas tree at 11pm. After that I couldn't bare Stuart constantly asking me to go to the hospital so we went.
Like I thought I was only 2cm dilated and we was sent back home. When we got home we went straight to bed and I tried to sleep. The most sleep I probably had at one time was about 20minutes and Stuart probably did not get much either as every time I had a contraction I squeezed him. About 2-3am I got another bath but it was no good, it was time to go back to the hospital.
I called my mum and best friend Naomi and we set off....
When we got there I tried different things to calm my contractions but leaning on the bed and rocking was best for me. My mum tried to talk to me to distract me, however this was a bad idea as I bit her head off.
Naomi arrived but I was in my own zone and did not really talk to her. About 5am I needed yet another bath, i've never had so many in less than 12hours. The contractions became more intense.
This was when my waters broke, but I had to double check with my mum. I seemed to loose all track of time when I was in hospital but all I cared about was that Stuart was by my side.
There was a funny part to being in labour, this was when I pushed during a contraction, stopped, turned to Stuart and said "I think I've had a crap!" I thought it would be embarrassing but like everyone says you just do not care.
I was asked if I wanted to go to the birthing pool to which I said yes. The next five minutes were the worst and the most painful (not wanting to put anyone off but he was pushing against my bone). However no more than three pushes later and my son was floating in the water.

WOW is all I can say!