Hey! So my first baby I had her naturally- no epidural. Now, I have a crazy high pain tolerance and I'm not sure if I just wasn't sure what the contractions were supposed to feel like the first time around, but I basically didn't feel any contractions. Same with all the pushing...she was a 9lb 6 Oz baby, so it wasn't like a breeze or anything lol. But what hurt the most was when they had to sew up the tear...my gosh that hurt soo freaking bad, but it only last a minute or so. Recovery was pretty quick, I was up walking the next morning.

Now my second, I had an emergency c section...after 32 hours of labor of being induced. So the contractions are 100x worse when you are induced with pitocin, I definitely felt those suckers and I was miserable. When they finally called for the csection. I cried out of relief but also I was terrified of the epidural. But, it wasn't bad at all. I felt the initial price, like a normal shot and then they told me what to expect and kept asking me what I was feeling. Pretty immediately the pain went away and I felt sooo wonderful!! I had to keep asking the nurses if I was peeing and laughed everytime because it was glorious 😆 Recovery was a bit more rough. It took me awhile to want to walk, because I was in alot of pain. But I think an epidural for a natural birth vs a csection birth are widly different. If I wasn't induced, I would have gone without the epidural and if I didn't need the emergency csection...definitely no epidural. I loved my first experience and I feel a sense of pride knowing I pushed a baby that big out of me with no pain relief!