I had all three of my kids with different amounts of pain meds. With N1 I had an epidural at 7 cm. Took me two hours to push him out. I think I would’ve done better without drugs. With N2 I had a spinal at 10 cm! Useless! The snarky nurse said “You can take a NAP now!”! I pushed her out right there in 20 minutes. Because of these experiences I decided to go natural with N3. I even got pitocin in but nothing really hurt until I got well into transition and then there wasn’t even time to pick up the phone! I pushed for four minutes including stopping so they could get the cord from around his neck. Once he was out I felt this whoosh feeling and the whole room was bustling with people! I was meditating that deeply! It was an awesome feeling and I’m glad I went drug-free with him. In fact the NICU team was called because N2s breathing was so bad from the spinal!