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Leah Libresco Sargeant's avatar

I have definitely not had painless births, but they tried to send me home during my labor with my second because they felt I wasn’t in real labor (presumably because I was comfortable). I assumed it was pretty early labor too, because the contractions felt like they needed my attention, but weren’t uncomfortable. But I was 6cm when they tried to make me leave and pushing about an hour after I stood my ground and didn’t go home.

Unfortunately, that baby didn’t want to come out! And after 4 hrs of pushing she needed help from forceps (which was *not* painless, esp to recover from).

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