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[quote=Anonymous]I had epidurals for my first and third, and unmedicated for my second.  The first was SO long that it wasn't that much better than the unmedicated one, which was relatively fast and painful AF.

The third was an elective induction and pretty easy.  After pitocin doing nothing, I got an epidural, the midwife broke my water, and I delivered less than two hours later.  Pushed for maybe 15 minutes?  It was really great.  With both epidurals, I could feel enough to shift positions somewhat, and when to push.  I have a girlfriend who also did unmedicated and then had an epidural, and she loved it.  I'm glad I had the experience of delivering unmedicated, and that would have been my choice with the third, but I had painful complications for the last six weeks of pregnancy, and I was kind of done with pain.

Be careful with saying childbirth with an epidural doesn't "look like childbirth"--there are many ways to birth children, epidural or no, C-section or no.  The romanticizing of unmedicated childbirth has really got to stop.[/quote]

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