To ask if you screamed or stayed silent in labour?

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The other night I was watching an old episode of call the midwife with my mum and dad. Both of the women giving birth were screaming the place down and it got us chatting.........my brother was born at home and my dad said he never heard a sound from my mum even though he was in the next room (1971 dads were not welcome in the delivery room).
My mum said that she couldn't identify with the screaming woman as she went quiet when she was in labour, I was the same, I went quiet and didn't say a word during both my deliveries.
Judging by TV and movie representations of women giving birth everyone screams! I think just as many women stay quiet as scream, it's whatever works for you ..........

YANBU I didn't scream
YABU I screamed the place down

I was really quiet but I think it helped I had an epidural! It wasn’t fully effective but did keep the pain manageable and when I pushed I just put all my energy into that rather than noise. But it was such a primal experience I can see why some women moan and moo and grunt and cry and scream. My body just did stuff without me having any day in it at all.

I screamed! And groaned, mooed, howled, shrieked and farted.

YANBU I didn't scream either time, I didn't even swear! Which is a miracle as I have a mouth like a sailor usually.

I could hear other women screaming though.

I wasn’t really either. I was fairly quiet but when it got to the baby has to come out on this push we are in trouble I made sort of a low moaning with the push. Didn’t plan to it just happened.

I mooed too.

I was really quiet until my water broke, then I made an absolute racket and he came shooting out within a few minutes.

I barely said a word during labour (Gas and air helped!) But when it got to the pushing I screamed the house down - will never forget the midwife who said “push from your bottom not from your throat!”

With me it was more of a dull roar than a scream. I found it took the edge off the contraction pain, so bellowed away. Was a bit mortified afterwards but at the time just went with it

There was a bit of ooo and ahh but definitely no screaming, were you guys giving birth to elephants?

I will add I used gas and air though, would have definitely screamed without it!

I did that low guttural growl that your body only seems to emit during labour. It worked for me. I also stayed crouching face down propped up on pillows - it absolutely bewilders me that women can do it lying on their backs 😵 I guess our bodies take over and do whats necessary to get the job done - we rock 💪🙌

I was really quiet, maybe whimpered a bit. The midwife couldn't believe I was fully dilated. Maybe it's because I'm naturally a reserved person but I didn't feel the urge to scream.

Neither.
I definitely wasn’t silent, but I wasn’t screaming like you sometimes see in tv dramas. It was more like the noise you’d make if you were trying to move something really heavy if that makes sense.

Screamed

Midwife told me to be quiet. I was only groaning a bit with the effort of pushing. I really hope she's no longer working.

I screamed the place down with my first two. They were beyond agony. I couldn't have even told you my own name during those births. One midwife told me to stop screaming and quiet down and I told her to shut the fuck up, she wasn't going through this, I was. She also tried to take my gas and air because she was trying to tell me I didn't really need it. Reader, she did not manage to wrestle it off me. Nuh uh. No way.

My third baby was born in a pool and it was less painful so it was grunts and quietness. A much better experience.

I didn’t scream, I grunted a little to start with. And then I had an epidural and didn’t really make any noise apart from straining pushing noises, which I can’t imagine sounded great- but I was a little busy at the time.

I was silent too. Honestly I have always wondered was others pain a lot worse than mine?

I swear by standing up and walking around to push though rather than getting on the bed.

Silent, apart from when she crowned I guess and said "oof, bloody hell fire"

There was a woman down the labour ward who was screaming the place down, the midwife, seeing my worried face told me not to pay heed to it, screaming is a thing in some cultures.

I screamed. Not literally as loud as I could, but still really loud. I didn't have any pain relief (not by choice!) and I found the screaming helped with the pain, like I fed the pain into the scream?

I made noise but not screaming. I think I talked quite a bit but nothing entirely sensible. I don’t think I could have got the energy for a proper scream.

I screamed when they yanked my first out with forceps.

With my second i pretty much mooed as i did the last few pushes.

I did that low guttural growl that your body only seems to emit during labour.

Same here, with #1. With #2 I shrieked and the midwife told me I was hurting her ears. I said, "I don't care about your ears!"

I didn’t scream at all during my first labour. Because I wasn’t screaming the midwifes wouldn’t believe I was in labour. In the end I had to do some fake screaming and tell the midwife I was pushing to get them to believe I was in labour. Surprise surprise I was fully dilated and pushing!

I didn’t scream either time. Lots of soft sighs, groans and a few whimpers.

Wish they would show different types of reactions instead of just screaming.