How you deal or cope with it and what it feels like are really two different things.
Like if you were to be able to understand the feeling from a description, you would wonder how you would deal with it, but when you actually experience it, you feel it, but you deal/cope with it better than what the description would have made you think... ITMS! lol

Personally, towards the very end of my (28hour) labour, I can only liken the pain to what I imagine a rotisserie chook feels like if I were a rotisserie chook on the branding hot skewer and someone was pulling my hips apart.
But then by saying that you would think it was horrible... lol But it was and it wasn't.

Clear as mud