to think childbirth doesn't really hurt?

[mrleebob]

;-)

I still find eyebrow threading more painful in a weird sort of way. It just doesn't go on as long. If childbirth were like eyebrow threading over the same period of time, I would never have another child.

Oh Flibberty I totally agree! I could have strangled the idiot who kept stabbing me in the hand with a needle during my contractions. I suppose that it did at least temporarily distract me :)

I have my own icons.

It's not like i haven't been doing this for ages, ya know.

I'm no amature.

No, but didn't you know?

There is no pain, there is just the fear of pain.

So if it hurts you are a fantasist and a great big nancy.

I was amazed to be told by DH that I was really, really polite to him throughout the whole labour...what was wrong with me?! But the eejit doctor who hit a muscle when trying to put a drip/canular in was on the receiving end of a rather scathing look apparently...

My first hurt very much (because the epidural didn't take correctly and they didn't re-site it, and because I was being induced by every method they had at the time).

Second time was a walk i the park. YES it hurt, YES I did scream a bit when I over dosed on the G and A, but I have had worse WIND... and there is no benefit of knowing it will end in something any more pleasent than a poop (if you are lucky). AND I had pain during pg that made me feel very sick and sweat and go very pale. It was probably gall bladder (and baby sat on it), THAT hurt way more than labour.

I did the walking up the hill mental image while having a contraction (with 2nd pg, number 1 hardly gave me any chance to go ow contraction before it hit, and the next one, and so on), tho I vividly remember saying sod the bloody mountain, get it out at one point.

So YANBU, it doesn't hurt for everyone, and IBS hurts more.

After 3.5 hours of pushing I begged my husband to end it. I mean to kill me. I really mean that.

Since I gave birth I have dislocated my shoulder twice and broken it. Travelling 20 miles in an ambulance with a dislocated shoulder and no more pain relief than the odd gasp of gas and air rates at about 9/10. Childbirth of a baby, back to back, induced and with 97th centile head, 10/10. Trolling of this quality, priceless.

p.s. my estimates are based on a logarithmic scale.

So do trolls need an epidural? Or does all that slime ease the passage of the baby

No trolls use two bricks no epidural neeeeeded

it probably flies across the room following a slight sneeze.

Contractions hurt so much, the pushing the baby out part was almost a relief. Almost.

Oh and next time [shudder] somebody please listen to me when I ask for pain relief. Hmmm, DH, Midwife .

I seem to remember being asked to be shot at 3 minute intervals as well, GruffaloMama. But only in the last hour - the rest wasn't too dismal, I suppise, but I was semi-comatose for much of it. Just wound up like an air raid siren for the contractions and then back to semi-comatosity.

I can't remember, it was forty years ago.

Just a slight period-pain type ache and then - bam! - it's out and you are back in your skimpy knickers and size 8 jeans and raring for action with your DH. Isn't the same for everyone?

'No, but didn't you know?

There is no pain, there is just the fear of pain.

So if it hurts you are a fantasist and a great big nancy.'

That's not true but there is a school of thought that says that fear and tension increase pain, and labour doesn't have to hurt as much as it often does.

I do remember saying to DH that the pain wasn't the worst part, it was the exhaustion and not knowing when it was going to end. I didn't like the feeling of giving birth, not because of the pain, but I find the feeling of pushing out a baby boak inducing.

You're right, OP, I just made all that noise to get my hands on free hard drugs. God, women are such wusses.

Op have you ever been in so much pain you literally shat yourself and didn't care?

My contractions were like being electrocuted along my spine and the base of my skull juddered with each one.

I bit DH on the shoulder during a few of them.

But I do remember at the time thinking that on a scale of 1 to 10, it was probably at about 9 so there was a bit to go before I started screaming for pethidine/epidural/gun.

Although I also thought a lot about how it would compare to lying wounded in a shellhole in no-mans land during WW1 (cheery) and I kept thinking how unfair it was that at least you had a chance of passing out for a while if you were wounded...

Beveridge - mine were like that, if you have another a TENS will really help with that awful feeling.

very true op. I was only mildly inconvenienced by having to cough twice to get baby out!
When a man gets older his cock retreats into his body and resembles a tiny acorn. hey Ho

ledkr

anyone who felt pain was obviously doing it wrong.......one breathes deeply in and out, opens ones legs, coughs twice, and out glides a child.

On describing the birth of DD1 to anyone who cared, the words absolute, fucking and torture were used repeatedly.

I wanted to shoot myself during 2nd birth.
For about 6 months afterwards, everytime I saw a heavily pregnant woman, all the hairs on the back of my neck stood up thinking about what she was about to go through.
Didn't stop me having a 3rd though which was a piece of piss compared to the 2nd.

DH found it very painful indeed - he survived though - with only minor bite marks and a couple of badly sprained fingers.