Show of hands, ladies.
I'd heard all about the amazing emotional high when you give birth and how fantastic that all is. I'd also heard plenty of women don't feel that at all.
I had a suspicion I'd be in the latter group and I was right: when I saw the babas I was relieved they were out of me safe and well and that both of them were healthy, but it really took me most of the last two months to grow to love them.
I had mentioned the possibility to my SILs in the third trimester and they were very quick to poo poo the idea that I wouldn't experience that high. DH even reckons expecting it, and then not getting it, is possibly linked to PND for some women- caring for a newborn is difficult enough, and harder if you don't have that bond to get you through, and presumably harder still if you worry over the lack of instant love for your baby. I feel that because my expectations of childbirth were comparatively low, I wasn't disappointed.

What was everyone else's experience like?