Orgasm during childbirth?

[WorraLiberty]

Am I being unreasonable to think this is possibly the last thing on the mind of any sane woman while she's trying to push a melon out of a mouse hole?

Apparently 22% of the Mums she studied, orgasmed during childbirth....though she didn't say how many she actually studied.

My mind is truly boggled

If, by overwhelming relief, you mean "think fuck that's over" then yes.

Which in certain scenarios may be rather like sex.

I've heard this before and assumed, like Stranded, it was a similarity in some of the feelings of relief . Or perhaps your body is orgasming (that a word? It looks wrong), as in all the relevant bits are acting in the same way that they would in a climax, but it doesn't feel the same.
I did read an article years ago, before DD, by a woman who claimed to find the whole thing madly sexy. I later concluded she was deluded and lying

SoupDragon Mon 05-Dec-11 10:34:17
If, by overwhelming relief, you mean "think fuck that's over" then yes.

Isn't that an orgasm then

Mine was far from orgasmic!

WTAF? There are some people out there who do get some kind of strange pleasure from pain.

Surely an orgasm isn't so much 'Thank fuck that's over' as 'Think that fuck's over'?

I think it's a good thing to hear about the full spectrum of birth experiences. I have spoken to genuine RL women who said 'I wouldn't describe it as pain'.
So I never had an orgasm? meh, so what. Still prefer to hear about it than all the doom stories which people are so eager to share.

I later concluded she was deluded and lying

LOL I do wonder how many of these people just want to get on TV

I think the only orgasmic part of my births was the cup of tea straight after

Did the 22% give birth to a sex toy? If not, and purely judging from my birth experience, I can't actually fathom how it's possible.

~soupy :)

If some one has an orgasm during childbirth then good on them. Lets be honest the rest of us are throughly jelous, but personally I am pleased for them.

A traumatic birth is not caused by somene else having the birth of their dreams.

Don't be so closed-minded! Labour and birth requires huge amounts of oxytocin, which is the hormone also involved in sex and orgasm.

Labour and birth isn't meant to hurt as much as it does. Oxytocin is meant to turn off the thinking parts of our brains - the bits that register pain - and allow us to be totally in our instinctive 'animal' brain. Unfortunately, modern birth keeps our thinking brain switched on by having people constantly talking to us, making us frightened by births we've seen on tv etc. and many other things.

But when birth works as it's meant to, we switch off and go to the same place we go to when we're deeply engaged in any sensual experience, including sex. All that oxytocin rushing around, and a floaty, spaced out feeling where pain doesn't really register is likely to cause a feeling identical to orgasm - it basically is the same thing.

I had an orgasm prior to the birth...about 9 months prior!

But when birth works as it's meant to, we switch off and go to the same place we go to when we're deeply engaged in any sensual experience, including sex

What? Round the back of a nightclub?

Worra!

I did find it somewhat erotic, not to the point of orgasm but could see how in the right environment and circumstances that it could be.

But Stranded, what about the bit where the babby's head stretched your cho-cha to ripping point?
Are you telling me that didn't smart just a little??

Not the same physical place, Worra!

I used to think this whole subject was bollocks... however. With my second, I was on the operating table awaiting my emergency c-section when I felt a strong urge to poo... you know what came next, no csection! I was in shock, panicking a fair bit, and my Dr told me to have a feel in reassurance. I didn't know I was giving birth as for my first had an epidural so didn't recognise the poo pains meaning birth was imminent.

As I reached down my hand brushed my clitoris. The stinging pain, the general awfulness stopped. I could cope.

I actually now firmly believe that if I'd had the courage to carry on rubbing myself birth wouldn't have been so bad, and timed right, who knows, had I carried on long enough and orgasmed birth would have been much more copeable?

I didn't carry on as I'm a product of my upbringing and though quite open with regards to masturbation, its always been something private and sexual. However, I think it also serves another function, maybe the other function of the clitoris is that if you feel it when giving birth its the body's own pain relief? An aid to childbirth?

I am blushing like mad writing this (again product of my upbringing) but I see the logic, sheesh I FELT the logic.

i never felt that bit nativity ...not even when it tore in two places.
transition, otoh, was ...erm...not nice.

however, i only felt great after...

at least in childbirth, there is no chance of your Husband doing it first, and thus totally spoiling it for you.

No orgasm here either, but I can see the correlation as it's certainly a climactic experience. It's a bit like dying too, I think. Birth, death, orgasm. It's all in the same scary/extraordinary ballpark, isn't it?