I was expecting excruiating pain but it wasn't!!
Seriously I had a drug free birth and I can't even handle a blood test!

Your body tells you what to do when it is ready...
When it came time to have stitches I had double the local anesthetic I was supposed to have cos I could be in control(I was able to feel pain and had the time to think abouut it) and my head was in a completely different space than what it was during labour and birth.

That sounds so stupid but when you are going thru childbrth you trust your body so much that you don't question the pain..you just do it!!

It doesn't tickle but it is pain that makes you proud to be a woman!