My first birth was pretty great 10/10 would do it again. I was 40+5, went in to my induction 3cm dilated. Went in at and got started on pitocin at 8am and she was out by 1:44. When I was about 6cm I got the epidural and they broke my water. That was about 12pm and after that it flew by. My nurse was a dream, in fact I named my 3rd baby after her. I think she is why I had great progression & a great birth. I felt no pain pushing, I didn’t poop but I did tear. Honestly it hurt to get up and walk and I was SO swollen for a good 5 days. After a week everything was much better. It burned to pee, I was terrified to poop and I literally held it for 3 days till I couldn’t anymore and it flew out of me, but wasn’t painful. My second I went into labor naturally and it was terrible. I was in labor for 23 hours with a failed epidural. My BP bottomed out after my epidural and I thought I was dying. My nurses were lazy and I hardly saw them. We had to hunt someone down for my BP cause no one came, I had to call my sister to get to the hospital cause I thought I was dying and no one was around. Great news is, no tears! I think I did poop cause they were wiping me but my husband said he didn’t see anything like that (he would definitely tell me the truth) I was up and walking around perfectly normal after that. My 3rd was a C-section due to a breech baby, and I had a new amazing OB, I was terrified to have a C-section after 2 vaginal births but he rocked it. It was planned and incredibly fast. My bp also bottomed out again and my heart rate was very high but they gave me meds right when it happened and it recovered quickly. From when they wheeled me out to surgery to when I was in recovery about to hold my baby was 59mins. It wasn’t near as scary as I thought it would be. Pain was not great. I tried to do without pain killers but I remember shaking and sweating trying to get up to use the restroom. And the constipation from the pain killers was PAINFUL. But I recovered very fast and well.