I don’t know why but for some reason when you’re pregnant people seem to think it’s helpful to tell you about all the horrible experiences, for example if they had complications, or in some cases just exaggeration. When will they learn that this is really not helpful all it does is turn the pregnant woman into a nervous wreck? Yes sometimes things do go wrong but these cases are very few and there are trained professionals around who are there to help if things do go wrong, so please no more scaremongering ’cause it’s not helpful!!!
My advice would be just ignore these people; I listened to the “horror stories” and given that this was the first time I was pregnant I had no idea what to expect so when I went into labour I panicked as I kept picturing all the things people had told me happening so with that combined with the whole deal of giving birth it wasn’t good, things got easier (well as easy as they can in labour) when I relaxed and let nature take its course.
Also another piece of advice I picked up when I was in hospital is don’t take the “manuals” which dictate what happens when literally, the woman in the bed next to mine had done this and got in a state because things were not going as it said in the “manual” she had read while pregnant