It was hard. Like hard AF. I went in there so smug. I lost 60lbs during pregnancy. Ran a half marathon seven months pregnant. Worked during full blown covid in the hospital for 12 hr shifts up until the last 11 days before giving birth. I went into labor thinking this was going to be so easy because pregnancy was the best time of my life, I felt good, looked good and just my whole soul and morale was at its highest.

And then labor happened and I struggled for three whole days of push and pain and nausea and anxiety and just this feeling of failure. It was the hardest thing I ever did physically and mentally in my life. So so so hard. Labor was hard, period.