Great story! You seem to be a very strong person, physically and emotionally...anyhow people are posting comments saying that they were induced or that epidurals and other medicines make labor longer or more painful..this was not true for me, it may have been for some but I gave birth to my first child when I was 17 years old and I was induced a week early due to high blood pressure and I had stadol, phenergan, and an epidural and I only felt pain for maybe 30 minutes while they waited for some of my other meds to wear off so I could get my epidural, my labor was very smooth and I pushed my daughter out in less that 10 or 11 minutes! So ladies don't be scared of birth, after it is over you will forget about all the pain if you have any!