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# Harshita Singh on Instagram: Honest Birth Experience

Harshita Singh on Instagram: "I asked every mom I knew before my first birth. I got “period pain times a thousand” and “just get the epidural.”
I get it. Pain is hard to describe. Maybe they didn’t want to scare me.

But I needed a mental map. Going in blind wasn’t peace — it was anxiety with a blindfold on.

So here’s the honest version. No softening. I’ve done this twice — once with an epidural, once without. Both vaginal. Both real. Both unique in their own right.

Part 2 is where I share the exact tools that got me through it. The breathing, the visualisation, the TENS machine, the mindset shifts. Everything.

Comment PART 2 below so I know to drop it fast. 🤍
And follow so you don’t miss it when it drops :)

#laborpain #whatcontractionsfeellike #firsttimemom #honestbirth #laboranddelivery birthprep inducedlabor realmotherhood pregnancytips newmom mumtobe ukmum londonmum theInBetween" — 2,784 likes, 308 comments - inbetweenwithharshita on May 14, 2026: "I asked every mom I knew before my first birth. I got “period pain times a thousand” and “just get the epidural.”
I get it. Pain is hard to describe. Maybe they didn’t want to scare me.

But I needed a mental map. Going in blind wasn’t peace — it was anxiety with a blindfold on.

So here’s the honest version. No softening. I’ve done this twice — once with an epidural, once without. Both vaginal. Both real. Both unique in their own right.

Part 2 is where I share the exact tools that got me through it. The breathing, the visualisation, the TENS machine, the mindset shifts. Everything.

Comment PART 2 below so I know to drop it fast. 🤍
And follow so you don’t miss it when it drops :)

#laborpain #whatcontractionsfeellike #firsttimemom #honestbirth #laboranddelivery birthprep inducedlabor realmotherhood pregnancytips newmom mumtobe ukmum londonmum theInBetween".  — https://www.instagram.com/p/DYUFMjDOZzQ/