It can be done. It’s horrendously painful, but it can be done. Haha. The contractions will be very painful, for sure, then before your water bag bursts, you’ll feel it bulging inside you and then explode when a big contraction comes. As baby comes out, you do feel a tearing hot sensation as baby comes down the birth canal. When it’s so painful, you can’t help but push hard, and your vagina will very likely tear, especially if this is your first vaginal delivery, so they’ll probably do an episiotomy to prevent severe tears that rip the anus. In my case, this was my second baby, so it was roomy enough for only small tears. Even then, there were tears.
Having no painkillers wasn’t my choice, by the way 😂. The epidural didn’t work. Then before they could sort it out, I suddenly went from 4.5cm to 10cm within half an hour. Lol. Such is life.