I went thru a labour with an epidural and without one, and I would seriously never do it without one again 8-[ I had always said I would never be one of those women that scream down the hospital roof, but when that head crowns that bloody burns like no tomorrow and I screamed the roof down, I screamed the roof down once when they told me it was my last push or it would c-sect time so I put everything into that last push.

I was induced both times though and labour is meant to be harder and faster apparently than a natural labour, and if you can get away with an epidural it is worth it cause I felt 100% after birth with Lachlan, but with Kameron I couldn't walk for 24hrs.

It is hard though to describe the actual pain cause everybodys pain threshold is so different. I was moaning and groaning during my last few contractions before my waters were broken by the midwife, and I was 7cm dilated when she broke them.

Love