Did you have a 'Painless Labour'?

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at people who didn't have pain.

With dd2 I was rolling around screaming with pain, feeling as if I was about to die, delirious and thinking that I must be fully dilated. Then the midwife arrived and told me that I was only 1cm dilated .

LOL melpomene I know that! MW examined me because I was acting like I was close to pushing, - turns out I was 2cm!

I dilated fully both times with no pain at all (and therefore no idea I was about to have the baby!) Suffice to say number 2 was delivered at home on the living room floor by dad, no pain relief, and whilst it was intense it wasnt that painful. Wierd, huh?

Did you get there in the end, ChickenWoman? (I didn't - emergency CS both times!)

Hmmm, I think I am being truthful when I say that I'm confident that birth no 3 was pain free.

I had what Marslady (a mumsnetter and my doula) called a silent labour. There was just 1 moment when I stood up from the pool so the midwife could have a quick look and I felt overwhelmed with the pressure and the force of it and went to sort of panic a bit and Mars reminded me to breathe, her words were, 'breathe this baby out, breathe her out' and I just totally chilled again and did just that. I can honestly say I don't remember being in pain.

The pressure and force of contractions were so strong with DD2, I don't remember that with DD3 and felt so much calmer and was really enjoying the contractions and the whole thing really.

ds 1 was 41/2 hours and it was the last 2 that I felt anything
ds 2 was 6 minutes and 3 contractions. I hadn't felt anything up until that point and was in for a routine scan when they noticed a contraction on the screen and pressed the panic button. He was 8 weeks early and a footling breech at this stage
dd was nearly 24 hours and following an induction that didn't take. I had been 3 cm dilated for the previous 3 weeks and had had 3 sweeps but nothing. They couldn't break the waters and she wouldn't engage. On due date they attempted an induction but to no avail and tried 3 times to break the waters before they could put me on the drip. In the end a studnet midwife who was on her 5 birth and 1st water breaking session managed it and dd came 15mins later

Yes thanks, - although it was an assisted delivery! I think I avoided a c/s because although I was begging, the labour ward was full and I couldn't get an epidural.

I was pushing for a long time too, - but again, as the labour ward was full, they couldn't organise help, and I ended up avoiding intervention and a c/section!

My colleague had three silent labours. She said it can be a bit dangerous as you might not realise you're in labour and then suddenly you just have to push the baby out.

She worked as a midwife for many years, so she was probably better prepared than most to cope if she did have an unexpected birth!

No pain, I could feel my uterus contract strongly, a bit like being sick downwards but no pain at all. Did hypnobirthing and yoga though.

I didn't really have pain. It was a bit sore, and I did have backache from sitting on the sodding birthing ball for what felt like 36 hours straight. Can's speak for second stage, as was put on syntocinon for that, got scared and asked for entonox.
I used Hypnobirthing, and would thoroughly recommend it.
Lookign forward to the next one

I felt badly constipated no more. And didn't do hypnobirthing or yoga!
Tried to poo and started bleeding so called the hospital who said come in (as I was booked for a cs for breech the next day)
When we arrived it turned out I was 6cm but it still only felt like a bit of trapped wind, 20 minutes later I was 10cm
But then had to have the cs anyway. Such a shame as I'll never know how the rest of the labour would have gone, some say it would have still been agony when it came to pushing but the baby was only 5lbs so I'm not sure about that. The cs went wrong because was done so speedily, won't go in to gory details but it was v traumatic. I wish labour had been a bit more painful so we could have got to hospital much much earlier and had time to either opt for a vaginal breech birth or a slow ordered cs. Never mind

Had a totally painfree time !! (sorry please don`t throw things !)
Delivered DD in under 2 hours and could not believe how easy it was - I kept saying to myself I cannot believe I am getting away with this !!

I know I am a lucky beggar as I was induced - MW told me I was no hero just very, very lucky !!

Would love to have another but DH says no chance..

Good luck to the rest who plan pain free !!

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no

i can't believe i have never experienced the joy of an epidural

i feel robbed

Can I sign up for a painfree labour, is there a website you can order one from?

Both of mine were agony very fast no let up in contractions. Am hoping a good few coughs and this one might fly out, my pelvis is knackered surely it is so elastic it might just move out the way?

With dc4 i had no pain at all. I was induced at 7am, at 7.15 told midwife(my sister) that i'd had no contractions but felt the urge to push. She checked, said omg babies there! Dont push yet we're not ready! I waited while they got sorted, pushed when they were ready (ages later!) baby born at 7.50am - fantastic!

When I was pregnant with DD, I saw this programme on one of the health channels about this woman, who had something like 6 children (can't remember how many she had) and all her labours were completely pain free. She didn't feel anything not even any pressure! It was actually a problem as she couldn't tell when she was in labour. In one of her pregnancies she just happened to be seeing the midwife who told her that she was in labour.

I was watching thinking 'wow! Maybe mine will be like that!'

Umm...no! Until the epidural was administered which was bliss!

pardon?

I'm sorry, I thought you said 'painless labour'.

DD1's birth was totally pain-free thanks to the pethidine and epidural. DD2's birth was agony thanks to mw refusing to give me any drugs (not even G&A).

first time round yes!!! was induced and had mobile epidural they recommended, was still tiring but completely pain free. second time round it hurt lots... no time for anything and i hated the gas and air.

dh said he preferred the first time... i was less vocal wouldnt you be!!!

I had a painless labour up until they worked out that DD was presenting wrong and they made me lie down in the back of the ambulance.

Have got chronic backpain, so even though I was induced and my waters had broken, didn't realise I was in labour. Just thought I was sore from being being stuck on the monitor thingy so often (not often enought for anyone to realise I was in labour)
All changed when I was asked what I wanted for breakfast and I suddenly turned into the exorcist and demanded to go to the lovely room where I could get the lovely drugs NOW.
In the delivery room the reaurassuring MW said "I'm not whether you're fully dilated or you haven't started to dilate, my fingers aren't long enough"....
Happily it was time to push which was really really sore and took 3 hours apparently, I thought it had been 20 mins, mind you I was on the G&A constantly.

The most incredible agony that I have ever known!!! Had I not been in such pain that i was unable to speak then I would have asked for an epidural. Had pethadine and G&A neither of which even touched the pain. I seem v unfair that some people can actually say they enjoyed their labour(not that I am bitter or anything!)

Both labours very painful.....second one half the length of the first , pain just as intense though but felt more in control, probably cos i refused the pethidine second time round!
My sister on the other hand had 3 very quick pain free labours...are we related at all???

the reference above re orgasmic birth. It is possible some women claim to have had an orgasm at the point of birth (I reallyyyyyyy not sure I believe that one) but it is apparently true. Anyone?