Childbirth pain vs periods

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Bad period pain wakes me up and can give me headaches, nausea and rapid heartbeat. Will my body manage childbirth? Like even if I'm ok with feeling the pain, could it be dangerous to be in so much pain?

I used to get very bad period pain. I really felt childbirth was not as painful as bad period pain, until the very end. The pain of labour is not dangerous.

Your body will manage childbirth, they are built to do that. There is nothing dangerous about labour pains.

I found labour far easier to manage than period pains, plus at the end of labour you get a lovely baby whereas period pains are just horrendous!

Your body will be able to manage and you will be able to have interventions such as gas and air if required.

There is nothing dangerous about the pains and if you aren't coping like millions of women don't, there are lots of drugs

Maybe having bad period pains might prepare you better. I found a lot of labour was like bad period pains

I never got bad periods so labour definitely felt more painful to me! However I have heard that people with severe period pains are better prepared..thing thing as well that during childbirth your brain floods with hormones / endorphins as natural painkillers which I guess you won’t get with period pains. Labour pains hurt but I never found it unbearable for me personally and you get a break in between contractions until the very end

Period pain makes me vomit and faint at times. Labour pain is VERY different, and so much worse for me. Both labours we’re back to back and very very long, 1 minute apart contractions lasting 1.5-2 minutes the entire labours (56 hours and 12 hours). So in my opinion you cannot compare labour to period pains

I think it's a different type of pain, I have awful periods and would rather do labour again that have a bad period.

If you want to take drugs to help you manage labour pains then you can. Do what works for you.

I gave birth on Saturday night to a beautiful little girl ❤️ and I had to reply to your post as I often wondered the same! I think if you have a non complicated delivery, as some other posters have confirmed, labour may not be as bad as period pains. That wasn’t my experience I’m afraid, but I had a lot of intervention (had my waters broke for me, induced with oxytocin, baby’s heart rate kept dropping, they tried to turn her whilst inside etc). The oxytocin drip made the pain off the scale, but try not to worry, as there is very effective pain relief available, and if you need it, don’t be scared to ask!

I have bad period pain but I cope. Labour made me immobilised with agony and I genuinely thought I was dying. It’s not the same at all. Since experiencing labour I’m afraid to die because I now know how much pain the human body can actually put me through.

The question is a bit pointless, since you can have an epidural in labour and feel no pain at all! Nobody gets a medal for needless suffering.
Labours vary enormously, from just mild pain to unbearable agony. If you are on a syntocinon drip, or the baby is malpositioned - O-P can cause excruciating back pain - then it will be orders of magnitude worse than an average labour.
You need to think about your pain relief in advance, as epidurals are only available in hospital labour wards. Milder pain can be managed with entonox (nitrous oxide in oxygen), TENS machines and opiates (ranging from pethidine to remifentanil infusions, the latter only available in hospital).
I can't think of any other severely painful procedure that patients would choose to undergo without any form of analgesia, and I wish I had a pound for every exhausted woman I have epiduralled, who said she didn't realise labour would be so painful or go on for so long.
That said, second and subsequent labours are usually shorter and less painful, although even that is not guaranteed.

I get really painful periods and had really painful contractions at the end. I saw an osteopath who said everything was very tight around my stomach (I am very small). And that's why my pain is so intense. I'd recommend getting acupuncture I had it once and had no pain with my period the next day. I'm going to get it next time in the run up to labour