Describing the pain during childbirth

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aussiebebe · 19/08/2024 23:08

I've never had babies and definitely want to be a mother. I always ask women if they can describe the pain of childbirth by using language that someone who has never gone through it can understand. For example, my mum always says that the pain we feel under our stomach when on period is intensified during childbirth. That's the sort of language I can relate to because I've felt period pain before.
Thanks ladies 💕

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mewkins · 14/09/2024 18:25

sunburnandsangria · 20/08/2024 00:01

Everyone is different. I had an induced back to back labour. There were no 'gaps' between contractions. I was in pain that went in waves from horrific to so unbearable I'd rather be dead.

All the mindfulness, JuJu Sundin Marie Mongen bollocks goes out of the window when you're in unrelenting pain for hours on end ('keeping active' when it's the middle of the night, you've had zero sleep and every time you try to move off the bed you vomit, makes the reality impossible).

I'd describe the feeling as being simultaneously torn apart and set on fire. For as many hours as the medical staff allow before they relent and let you have some proper pain relief. In my case about 10 hours.

I also had a back to back labour 14 years ago. I can relate. It didn't feel like period pain it was unrelenting. Mine went on for days and ended in a emcs.

ginasevern · 14/09/2024 18:26

Lefmry · 14/09/2024 18:18

I felt lied to as for me it did not feel anything like period pain at all! 😂 I laboured all in my back and it felt like someone was snapping me in half, it was like nothing I had experienced before in my life. At no point for me did contractions feel like period pain at all.

My pains were all in my back too. The hospital had run out of all forms of pain relief including gas and air - long story. The pain was soooo bad. That was 47 years ago, I've been married twice and never had another child. Nothing would convince me to go through that again!

Jingleballs2 · 14/09/2024 18:31

Namechangencncnc · 19/08/2024 23:28

I actually thought I could die from the pain!
I didn't think it was much like period pains, but I was on the drip and dd was back to back, so there was no break between contractions, one just went into another.

Horrendous. Had a planned section the second time !

The same for me, not like period pain in the slightest. Would have happily died to be put out of my misery, but also back to back so maybe that's why!

verabarbleen · 14/09/2024 18:35

Yes like intense period pain I also felt like I needed a giant poo! And felt the pain in my lower back more than I did in my tummy. I had gallstones attacks last year and the pain reminded me of it. Obviously it was in a different area but the so painful you have to breathe through it type pain. But at least with childbirth you get a baby so it's worth it .

Happierthaneverr · 14/09/2024 18:37

I had the induction drip and if I’d have had a gun I’d have blown my head off. There was no break between the pain and it was indescribable, I can only think it was like having your whole body hooked up to the National Grid. It made me push involuntarily which made me wee myself, poo myself and vomit, all while immobile from the pain. Thank god my epidural was in not long after the drip started. Even then I could still feel pain and had to have gas and air.

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