Just to reassure you, here is your first pregnancy/birthing horror story:
Deathly ill for 1st trimester. Breezed through rest of pregnancy. Small labor pains at 6:00am. Hard labor pains at around 1:45pm. Epidural at around 1:55pm. Birth: 2:21pm
Easy peasy. Moral: for every horror story someone will be compelled to tell you (and they will), there are many more simple, "everything went right" pregnancies.
Oh, and just wait for the thrills when unknown, strange people feel compelled to touch your belly.
