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[quote=Anonymous]Just because something is available now doesn't make it the superior choice.

I had a med-free birth and didn't find it to be "absolute torture" as your birth with an epidural was for you. Was I lucky? Crazy? Who knows, but I went med-free with my second also. Different baby, different birth experience, but also nowhere near torture.

One take-home from my birth class was that I felt that I had options to deal with the pain without going straight for the epidural. I think that the experience might have been worse for me if I were relying on an epidural which then didn't perform fully. I also think the experience might have been worse for me if I didn't have that birth-class prep.

As for your woman-down-the-hall example, who knows what was going on with her? Do you know for sure that she was unmedicated? Had she prepared for the birth or was she just trying to tough it out? I don't know, and probably you don't either. For all we know, she looks back at that birth as an exhilarating, empowering experience. 
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