Each stage of labor is different. Most woman do not enjoy giving birth and will seek pain relieve options to block out the pain involved with giving birth. I like to think of pain from childbirth as a gift from mother nature. If we should not have to be subjected to the pain associated with giving birth our bodies would have been made differently. Labor is labor! It was meant to be difficult, long, and hard. Our bodies are doing what they were built to do. Have babies!