It feels like a vice grip around your entire middle section pinching your muscles extremely hard, but also with a strong burning sensation to go with it. Or that was what it felt like to me.

Imagine doing a situp every three minutes, but you hold it at halfway for three minutes then relax, now do that for 12 hours straight with no break, and each sit up gets closer together, and each hold time lasts longer, and no matter how much you want to stop your body won't stop.

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Like a cramp in your stomach, but the most intense cramp. I mostly had back pain, so it was like when back hurts but worse. Also it comes and goes. I think back labor would have been easier but I couldn't walk around much because I was induced so they needed me on monitors

If you are a lady, it's period cramps (uterus does have contraction for period). Contractions vary in labor, so the medium contractions were like bad period cramps.

The worst period cramps you’ve ever had, multiplied as high and you can imagine. Mixed with the pressure of a watermelon trying to burst through your crotch, also while your stomach and intestines are being squeezed and twisted.

It starts off bearable, but eventually the pain and pressure consumes you.

Eventually pushing actually helps because it’s gives you a little control and you know you’re making progress towards it all being over with.

The height of contractions is worse than the pain of pushing a baby out.

My epidural didn’t work with my second.

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