I had an 8hr induced labour with no pain relief, 2hrs of pushing, ending in a venteuse delivery. Still to this day I don't know how I tolerated so much pain. The pushing was definitely a lot easier to cope with pain wise, as it felt like I was pushing the pain away, if that makes sense! Then the relief when she came out was immense! Was a burning pain as her head came out. I think the being stitched up afterwards hurt more tho! (Was cut and tore, so lots of stitches!) X

I had gas and air then when I got in the pool I didn't use it at all lol my mum recorded me giving birth and I was dead quiet it was eery lol I just concentrated so hard on pushing and not wasting energy on screaming. I think I was pushing for just over an hour. X

@lauren1519 i had a quick labour with my son and had no pain relief.. With the head it kinda felt like a burning pain but was then relief when rest of him followed x

It's an overwhelming feeling like you have to push so that's all I focused on really and as soon as she was out the pain went instantly it was amazing

AW that's true u do focus more on the pushing then anything else. Xx

I didn't have any pain relief with my son . Don't remember feeling anything with the head just a bit of a burning feeling I was too busy concentrating on pushing to notice the pain . My labour was extremely fast though xx