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One night a year or so ago, a group of friends and I were out for a mom’s night.  The subject turned to our birth stories.  All different types were represented — epidurals, natural births, c-sections.  The women who’d had an epidural remembered their pre-drug experiences as extremely painful and were shocked that a couple of us had chosen to go drug-free (incidentally, in this group, both home…