I had gone into, I don't know if I'd mentioned before, I'd gone into the birth, wanting to do it

natural, wanting to do it on Medicaid, I should say. But I wasn't adverse to an epidural.

My thought was, pains never really stopped me before. But if the pain gets to a point where it turns

into suffering, I would probably get an epidural at that point.

And it never did.

It never turned into suffering.

But I really attribute that to being able to stay in the moment and not getting caught up in that panic because of the lack of control that I had.

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