What Does Labor Feel Like
14 Moms on What Labor Really Feels Like
!["Contractions feel like waves. The discomfort gets worse and worse until it crests, then eases back down. Visualizing actual waves and then breathing through them helped me. Now, I had one induced with max doses of Pitocin and one totally [unmedicated]. No pain meds for either. On Pitocin, the waves crest and then smash into a wall, and while you're trying to recover, another one crests and smashes so you feel like drowning. [Unmedicated] labor is just riding on huge rolling waves. [Unmedicated] labor felt like a picnic, even with no pain meds, compared to that 'angry ocean' caused by Pitocin!" — Kelly D., Michigan](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/GcSemQ1Et1xKq2x32G2nJclnhpE/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2018/11/28/002/n/24155406/b6ec133aba284fd8_abstract-background-beach-355288/i/Contractions-feel-like-waves.jpg "\"Contractions feel like waves. The discomfort gets worse and worse until it crests, then eases back down. Visualizing actual waves and then breathing through them helped me. Now, I had one induced with max doses of Pitocin and one totally [unmedicated]. No pain meds for either. On Pitocin, the waves crest and then smash into a wall, and while you're trying to recover, another one crests and smashes so you feel like drowning. [Unmedicated] labor is just riding on huge rolling waves. [Unmedicated] labor felt like a picnic, even with no pain meds, compared to that 'angry ocean' caused by Pitocin!\" — Kelly D., Michigan")
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