Could you be as quiet as a mouse during labour?

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Scientlogy- Is that what its called.
I really don't think I could keep that quiet, could you?

I kept quiet out of instinctive choice - if you'd have told me I had to keep quiet I would have screamed.
My mum was urging me to get in touch with inner animal and moan and howl
No thanks :)
I did ahev the benefit of very quick "easy" labours though with my two...

Yes, I could be quiet as a mouse. A mouse the size of the Albert Hall, that is.

My first i howled like a banshee and my second i was quiet (aside from telling the midwife that i really couldn't stop pushing that is!)

neither was a choice it just happened. My secoind labour was actually my nicest and i had loads of adrenaline afterwards. could be coincidence tho also had no drugs

i can't keep quiet wherever i am so definately not while in pain

I did. Twice. I think I was too uptight to scream. I don't know if screaming would have prevented the 3rd degree tear with my first...I also had a C/S, no need to cry with that one.

I just went 'Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur' quite loudly on and off for hours on end, when breathing out. I probably could have kept quiet - except for snapping at DP, of course - but sounding like a meditating cow somehow came naturally.

With ds1 I could have been quiet as I had an epidural and felt next to nothing - too busy gassing to be quiet though

Ds2 - no way, was so quick and such a shock that all I could do was shout 'help me, please!'

Ds3 - textbook birth - was very quiet all the way through labour and only did an 'arrrrgh' as his head came out.

No way and I didn't even have painfull labours.

I think it's supposed to be about negative energy from screaming affecting the baby BUT, if you're going to be a crack pot, surely there's more harm in trying to contain energy inside you when your body wants to scream.

I screamed most during transistion, I think because your body needs to do something with such a powerfull contraction that's not actually doing much. It wasn't a decision to scream, it was just done, instinct.

In the final stages of pushing I sounded like a very constipated cow bellowing/grunting at the top of it's lungs, literally, and it was completely involuntary. I was aware that the sound came from me, and I could see the look of astonishment on dh's face, but I had no control over it at all (I'm normally fairly quiet and reserved, so it was all a bit of a shock for all concerned ).

Actually, I was very quiet. Barely spoke or said a word throughout the whole thing. Not close scientologist, I promise, just felt I was trying to put all my energy into getting the bloody thing over with! I didn't have the energy to scream...

I lost my voice when I had DD because I screamed that much!!! DP said I was like a banshee!!!

I was actually quite quiet during my second labour. Partly because my gob was full of the gas and air mouthpiece.

I brayed like a donkey, mooed like a cow and did some sort of bizarre operatic chanting. I had my babies at home when I lived at number one and my neighbours at number nine say they heard me.

I would kick Tom Cruise, or anyone else, very hard in the bollocks if they tried to tell me how much noise I was allowed to make.

I suppose I could if I have a huge dummy stuffed in my gob. Mind you it wouldn't stop me lashing out at the nearest Scientologist and giving them a good hard kicking...

NO WAY

I wonder if he would keep quiet after a big kick in the bollocks
I think not!

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I was fairly quiet with both mine - like someone else said, I was using the energy elsewhere!

was pretty quiet during ds1's birth but then i did have an epidural! ds2's was another kettle of fish!!!!!

I did a lot of screaming from what I remember. one midwife said if I wasn't careful I'd have a sore throat afterward. I shouted that I didn't give a flying F*K if my throat was sore afterwards as that was the least of my problems right now. So my answer would be no then

I did tell my doula and my dh that I loved them quite a few times though so I wasn't a complete cow about it.

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The subject has been done twice in the past 3 weeks that's why you're nit getting much reply :
Here :
www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1365&threadid=160281&stamp=060401164147
www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1372&threadid=159708&stamp=060401200107

I'd scream even if it didn't hurt - gotta make your dh know that you're in agony

I tended to lay it on a bit thick when I got home too!

I've often thought about this, I think I was fairly quiet except for perhaps grunting noises. (Oh and moaning things like "When is it going to end!" and "I can't do this any more!") I don't quite understand how you could make noises, as in screams or yells etc, because aren't you supposed to be concentrating on breathing? That's all i remember doing - breathing very hard, a lot of it with gas &air, and then at pushing time if you're shouting surely you're not really pushing properly?

Since having dd i always want to throw something at the telly when they show someone in labour screaming etc i just always think "It's not like that!"
but judging by this thread, maybe it is?