Moms (and dads), what were your birth/labor experiences like?

Moms (and dads), what were your birth/labor experiences like?
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My son was 3 weeks early. I had some slight discomfort so I went to see my Dr. I was in labor and I didn’t even know it. I went to the hospital, they broke my water, gave me an epideral and my son was born about 6 hours later. I actually had him in a labor room, rather than a delivery room, because a bunch of other women decided to pop the same day and there wasn’t a delivery room available. It wasn’t a bad experience, other than my epideral took forever to wear off and I couldn’t walk for hours.
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