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?

I think that, as shown here for some women it can be pleaseuable. My difficulty is more with people who affirm that it is pleasurable, and that women who find it painful cannot distinguish between pain or pleasure. Or have been so brainwashed that giving birth will be painful that they cannot recognise pleaseure when they feel it. That is both silly, and really rather insulting. the link I posted says both these things

Can I tell a nursey masturbating story here? Pleeeeeeeze?

if you must, sigh

Go on I want to hear .........

Do I need my popcorn, or will I spray ??

Shit, you don't masturbate with popcorn do you....now that would be kinky!

MB, you cow, I nearly lost a mouthful of really good rosé..................

Memo to self

Stop digging.

OK. I used to work with a brill GP who did a few hours a week at an std clinic. They had this young chap who would come in every week to get his warts zapped on his willy. As soon as he took his trousers off he would get a stiffy and it would bounce around and make the wart burning very difficult indeed. They tried using a male nurse, a battle axe female nurse but nothing worked. Bounder every time. Eventually my friend the GP took him aside and said that they would give him an early afternoon appt and that he should relieve himself in his lunchhour before he came into clinic (lurve that euphemism...).

Anyway, the following week the GP received a phone call from the police to say that they had been called to a house just down the road from the clinic where the young man had been found having a wùnk in the bushes (very middle class area!) and that he had been very adamant in giving her name and saying 'But doctor X told me I had to....."

OK. Back to orgasms and childbirth.

lol gggg

LMAO GGG

Fio my love, I am not a cheap date, takes more than two glasses of wine.

Apparently the woman heard her rhododendhrons shuffling.....

Wonder whether they came up a treat, or died the next year.

Sophable,you miss the point.
There is a difference between sensual and sexual.

I am of the 'keep it to yourself' school of thought re sexual matters. (Why do we have to fucking share everything??) so in the highly unlikely scenario of having an orgasm during childbirth,I would probably just keep it to myself.

And as you know,have major lentil weaver tendencies.

How many people did have a problem with the Orgasm bit, beyond being surprised or shocked? Very few- and if acknowledging our sexual stuff is OK, then so is acknowledging our feelings about stuff. No, as I said before Soph, for the vast majority it was the woman asking a MW to masturbate them etc that was odd, and the sex in childbirth (which BTW is something you shouldn't do if waters have broken anyhow due to risk of infection).

On a genral level I understood and supported your post, but think you may have missed the jist of many posts.

I don't really get why people are equating sensuality and inappropriacy here? I do get why Rhubarb is annoyed that every arena of womanhood has to be sexualised by some (ok, some men), but isn't there another way of looking at this, as something really wonderfully primal? I would be profoundly surprised to have an orgasm during childbirth but it's hardly...what? Abuse? I don't understand what the fuss is.
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moondog i'm certainly not mixing up sensuality and sexuality, and fully understand that they are two separate things that sometimes (hopefully) overlap.

so the problem isn't that women get turned on/orgasm during childbirth, but that they have the, what, audacity?, temerity? to tell anyone about it????

how absurd.