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to think childbirth doesn't really hurt?

98 replies

mrleebob · 02/09/2010 20:38

;-)

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babybarrister · 02/09/2010 21:57

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MrsC2010 · 02/09/2010 22:00

Oh I hope my second is better...I have palpitations thinking about it which given we want/wanted a large family isn't a good thing!

Shaz10 · 02/09/2010 22:05

Mine was a C section so the birth itself was completely painless.

(I won't talk about afterwards) :o

sapphireblue · 02/09/2010 22:05

mrs IME the 2nd is much better and easier than the first.

Beveridge · 02/09/2010 22:27

Will bear that in mind Jareth, with DD I was 7cm dilated less than 2 hours after my first contraction (and the second contraction happened 40 minutes after the first) so between DH rushing home from work and us heading straight into hospital, there was no time to get the bloomin Tens on!

Beveridge · 02/09/2010 22:29

babybarrister "TENS machines - do me a favour! totally bloody useless - just makes you look like a suicide bomber IMO"

Grin Grin ROFL!

duchesse · 02/09/2010 22:45

You can think that if you like; the closest I've come to pain-free childbirth was the last one, a crash C-section under general anasthaetic, with lashings of morphine and paracetamol afterwards. Yeay for major abdominal surgery!

The other three were fucking painful, yes...

TitsalinaBumSquash · 02/09/2010 22:49

Well i was contracting right up until i was 8cm dilated and didn't even feel it! I had a nice meal and a walk without feeling a sausage! Bow down to me!

(Tits fails to add in the first birth story which she screamed, cried and begged for the drugs!) Grin

Altinkum · 02/09/2010 23:01

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princesspuds · 02/09/2010 23:04

Maybe whilst your DW/DP is in labour give her your nether regions for suport, i'm sure she will be grateful for something to hold when the contractions kick in and it will give you a small insight of what us ladies go through Grin

GiddyPickle · 02/09/2010 23:11

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Honeydragon · 02/09/2010 23:13

As I tend to go "into myself" (so into myself I forgot to ask for the free drugs [sad) so when in more active labour dh was happy to sit like a spare prick at a wedding and look helpful. However when I was ready to push he asked the midwife how long it would take, when the midwife replied "well, as she is vbac [see even she had given up talking to meGrin], it can be hours as it is like her first time".

According to my husband my eyes focused on the midwife in abject horror and I muttered "fuck that shit!", put my hair in a pony tail and had dd out in under 15 minutes.

I remember none of this thankfully, so I can only assume the process was not painful at all. Grin

BelleDameSansMerci · 02/09/2010 23:16

Oh it doesn't hurt at all if you're drugged up to the eyeballs... I had a lovely time, thank you. Grin

Nettiespagetti · 02/09/2010 23:19

Only thing that really hurt was the bloody intervals Angry I refused to have any intervention with dd and certainly no bloody monitors or internals! The rest was fine Grin

Fizzywinelover · 02/09/2010 23:25

I found childbirth a little grim. I was actually passing out between contractions, and at one point, was unconscious but screaming. The midwife said she had never seen that happen before.

Then when the epidural came, life looked up. Watched a new episode of location location location, some of Wimbledon and started writing thank you cards. Grin

specialmagiclady · 02/09/2010 23:29

I love "fuck that shit"! I was the same. They waved a ventouse at me for DS1 and i looked at them like they were idiots and said "surely the best thing would be for me to just Push This Baby Out".

Heracles · 02/09/2010 23:35

Those damn coneheads and their painless births...

thesecondcoming · 02/09/2010 23:42

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MamaMimi · 03/09/2010 00:05

I must be the exception that someone earlier mentioned as I felt no pain at all with dc1, didn't have a clue I was contracting when a MW discovered I was 7cm. From then til pushing dp, mum, and I had a picnic & read mags in labour room. Then a few pushes (still not feeling anything) and leaned over and pulled baby out myself once her head & shoulders were out. No pain relief at all.

With dc2 felt the last contraction before pushing and had the urge to push which I never with dc1, but still no pain at all.

So OP, AFAIC, no YANBU, but as I said (and as is obvious from this thread) I am an exception.

Honeydragon · 03/09/2010 00:08

Pmsl at damn coneheads Grin hilarious

ApocalypseFlangePop · 03/09/2010 00:11

First baby, four day labour with only paracetamol for the majority of it.

Second baby, 24hr labour but he weighed almost 10 ibs and his shoulders got stuck, it hurt.

Didnt tear with either tho Hmm

ApocalypseFlangePop · 03/09/2010 00:16

I too had a 'fuck that shit' moment with my , soon as they laid out their instruments of torture when he got stuck my mind was made up. Poor baby nearly flew across the room I had him out so quick !

kickassangel · 03/09/2010 00:17

it is possible to lose consciousness purely due to the pain, no other reason at all.

does that answer the question?

ladette · 03/09/2010 00:19

no mrleebob, it doesn't really hurt. In the same way that some men could stick their manhood in a vice and turn the handle several times and say it doesn't hurt. Would you like to give it a go (natural, of course, no pain relief, that would never do!)

madhattershouse · 03/09/2010 00:24

Lets face it... if men had the babies there would only ever be 1 per family! Man-flu is a near death experience!! At least the pain ends..unlike puting up with a man - that "pain" is endless Grin