Mum tells of agonising childbirth without pain relief I was just really scared. I didn't know what was happening. I wasn't told any alternative of pain relief until I got to the hospital. Emma was about to endure the most agonising pain of her life, struggling to deliver a baby without any gas and air pain relief. It was really bad. I've never experienced that type of pain before. Well, I've had that type but without the pain relief, it was really excruciating. And I think if he was my first baby that would really put me off of having another one. It was hard to breathe through it because I was taking my breath away. It was really bad. Emma's hospital suspended gas and air because of safety fears, but nobody had warned her. It was just the pain. He's not my first baby. So my previous labours, all I've had is gas and air and it helped with the contractions...