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How bad is labor pain? Moms describe how it felt to be in labor and how they dealt with the pain.
Crystal
So the labor pain honestly was not that bad. I had had—we were going to have a homebirth, and I’d had a lot of pain management training with my midwife. So just I had a lot of strategies.
Libby
Definitely intense, but if you just stay positive in your thinking—that’s what I tried to do—it was very manageable. I hate to say it was really awesome, but it really was.
Nicole
Labor pains felt like someone was sending a train through my back and out of my vagina.
Meredith
I had natural childbirth with all three of my kids so what contractions in childbirth felt like was insanely painful. I kind of in a weird way liked it because I felt like it was something that connected me to all the other women in time.
Lois
I have no idea what labor pain would be because I was on an epidural.
Savanna
I’d seen in the movies with the people screaming and freaking out, and I didn’t really scream. I had the epidural though.
Jennifer
After the epidural, I felt like I could finally concentrate on the job at hand and got things done. 23 hours later we had a boy.
Chelsea
I pushed for three-and-a-half hours, and then finally they were like, “You have to have a C-section.” I was like, “Give me the C-section,” because I was just exhausted.
Marilin
My original plan was to go without any pain medication so that was what my mind was set on, but about 10 hours into it, I absolutely could not take the pain anymore. At that point, I asked for an epidural.
Reena
You know, I had a natural delivery. I was—I seriously felt fine afterwards. My labor was four hours. I was ready for coffee and some chocolate and to hit the road.
