Orgasm during childbirth?! Tell me this is a lie!!

[kitegirl]

A friend of mine has a very competitive MIL. This friend has just given birth to her first, a nightmare labour with every possible intervention you could imagine (she's cool about it, bless her). Her MIL won't stop going on how amazing all her births were, saying how she just 'breathed the babies out' and how all her births were such ecstatic, spiritual experiences that she actually had an orgasm during each one!

Now I know a birth can be enjoyable, but an orgasm??? I've never heard this happening. Is this a case of one-upmanship? I told my friend that there's only one place to find out and that's Mumsnet... so what do you think?

Actually it is extremely appropriate. It is not a case that "these women" are just nymphos fgs. Childbirth is a primitive time and lots of strange things happen.
God I am SO glad I didn't post under my real name. I was just a little embarrassed but I had no idea some of you could be so narrow minded and judgmental.

Bit masochistic though.. "getting off" on what is commonly considered to be one of the two most painful experiences that humans have to endure. The other is a sickle cell crisis. My sister has SC disease. Can't say I have noticed her having an orgasm whilst trying to exist in that kind of pain...

Why would you tell a midwife to masturbate you anyway? Have your arms fallen off?

Well I suspect it isn't "having a wank" is it? It is probably subsconcious/instinctual.

if anyone does, well, good luck to them.

Do you not think this might just add to the great list of things we have to 'achieve' during childbirth though?

Pack bag, order birthing pool. interview and hire a doula, cook meals for post birth period, buy a gift for forst child from the upcoming baby, dtink raspberry leaf tea, massage your perineum with organic yak butter, focus of acchiving your birthing goals and now , have a frigging orgasm

I nearly had one though, it happened when the doctor said, 'You are right Martian, this baby is never going to come out, we are going to give you a section'

Ladies, I wept with joy!

I think the mechanics (although admittedly I read this in a piece by Simon Hoggart so f*ck knows if it's accurate, so to speak) are that the head presses against your G-spot thus releasing nice orgasm-producing wossnames and taking your mind off the excruciating pain.

I have to say that despite a wide-ranging sex life it was not a time when I personally felt my onions frying.

cluck - I feel it is inappropriate to equate childbirth with orgasmic sex, if that makes me closed minded then so be it!

LOL mp

i have had male patients during my time as a nurse asking me to wank them, asking me for 'relief'

of course i refused, if a woman had asked me the same i would say no too

maybe they are having a drug induced high

Would anyone feel uncomfortable with their MIL bragging to them about orgasmic childbirth? I felt v.squirmy when mine told me her nether regions were ripped asunder by her 4 boys.

I'm not narrow minded and judgemental CluckCluck.. what a narrow minded statement .. just because I'm baffled by the prospect of an orgasm during childbirth... I did say live and let live..! But frankly, I have to say, an orgasm would have been preferable to the sheer torture I experienced during my deliveries.. were it not for the fact that I prefer not to have orgasms in front of a team of medics.. nor do I choose to have them in sitations related to my children!

DP's mother told me about her youngest baby rejecting the breast firmly at seven months. I wouldn't have minded at all - she was a very nice woman and very pro-breastfeeding - had not said youngest son, then aged 28, been in the same room. Which is no doubt horribly uptight of me, but it felt a bit odd.

lol@sleepyjess

MP I love the chainsaw reference.

i know! that is tmi by a looooong way.

I too have heard more about my MIL's undercarriage than I could possibly want to know, and she's actually quite reticent about it.

mp thats horrible, sorry

'onions frying' is one to file away for use later!

Exactly SJ
lol MP.

Mb - I "achieved" most of yr list save for the doula/yak butter application.. Wasn't trying to birth competitively tho' just fancied a waterbirth and all its trimmings (except the orgasm)
But i did feel unexpectedly horny in the very last days of pregnancy, maybe some get this carrying on into the birth itself or something?

that was a reply to gryscm btw

Fio PLEASE don't bring anal sex into the equation... that would just take the biscuit...!!

The surge of hormones just made me barf.

'keep still mrs marchhare, we are just about to make the insision'.

Unfortunately for me, my MIL has a new undercarriage story everytime she comes round. DH usually buggers off before they start. I always repeat them word for word to him later as he screams 'no more, la, la, la, la, la, la. Find a happy place'.