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[quote=Anonymous]I had two very short unmedicated labors--5.5 hours the first, 8lb baby, and just over 1.5 hours with the second, 9lb baby (and I'm 5'3" and ~130lbs).  My water broke spontaneously with each and contractions started very quickly after.  With my first, I don't remember being in pain until the last couple of pushes/ring of fire.  I remember it being very, very intense and overwhelming and that pushing was hard work.  But not painful and I pushed for about 2 hours.

With my second, I remember thinking between pushes that I was absolutely insane for doing this again without an epidural.  It hurt, and I did a lot of yelling, but at least between contractions I got a break and could think clearly.  At one point, a couple of pushes before he was born, I remember begging the midwife to please just get him out.  But I only pushed for maybe 10 minutes or so, so while it HURT, it didn't last long.  I also remember wanting to punch the nurse in the face when she was doing a hep-lock while I was in transition not long after we got to the hospital.  Both times, pushing was kind of like puking; I couldn't not push.  I just had to.

I broke my arm when I was 20, both bones in my forearm, and needed surgery.  The two kinds of pain were vastly different.  The broken arm felt wrong and hideous and made me sick.  Labor may have hurt just as much on a scale of 1-10, but it was a completely different kind of pain.[/quote]

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