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Did you have an orgasm when giving birth?

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LauriefairycakeeatsCupid · 18/03/2009 22:46

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1163027/Is-taboo-childbirth-Yes-Yes--Yes-.html

Surely this is highly unlikely, bet there's none on here who had one during birth.

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KayHarkersHeartBelongsToTen · 18/03/2009 23:28

or maybe a book deal..

harpsichordcarrier · 18/03/2009 23:28

oh and I have seen the film, twice
I have been on a thread like this before and anyone who suggested that it was possible was accused of (a) masochism (b) delusion (c) "making other women feel guilty" (always a good one) (d) gross perversion/paedophilia (e) all of the above

so
I think I might go to bed instead

onebatmother · 18/03/2009 23:30

Yes, quite right Kay. It's a meta-load-of-shite.

"Dr Northrup" has an amusingly 1950s ring, though, no?

"Dr Northrup writes: 'Ladies, avoid at all costs accidental stimulation of the clit-aw-ris. It will spoil you for marital relations and lead to family breakdown and possibly destitution.'"

AbricotsSecs · 18/03/2009 23:31

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KayHarkersHeartBelongsToTen · 18/03/2009 23:31

Oh I'm sure it's possible, and I don't think it's perverted or owt silly like that. It's just not happened to me.

onebatmother · 18/03/2009 23:33

But harpsi, were there any women who claimed they'd personally experienced it?

I mean, the existence of film of it happening is not really to the point, in this context. For eg., there are women who experience spontaneous orgasm in the presence of fine art.

onebatmother · 18/03/2009 23:34

That wasn't a confession btw. I am aesthetically underpowered.

harpsichordcarrier · 18/03/2009 23:36

yes

thumbwitch · 18/03/2009 23:36

no chance. It felt like having the biggest poo of my life with extra back pain for good measure.

KayHarkersHeartBelongsToTen · 18/03/2009 23:37

Well, despite hours of sitting in front of the Caravaggio in the garage, while sitting on the tumble dryer, art's never done it for me.

It makes a certain amount of sense that continued pressure on a physical area could produce that reaction. I'm mildly jealous, having had hard, slog like births, of which I can only actually remember three out of four anyway.

onebatmother · 18/03/2009 23:38

was it YOU???!!!

or are you just agreeing that I am aesthetically underpowered?

LaDiDaDi · 18/03/2009 23:39

I remember that thread harpsi.

I don't think it's that ridiculous tbh (after all people find the oddest things pleasurable) but then I've not experienced labour so really have no idea!

onebatmother · 18/03/2009 23:39

Old Masterbation, Kay? Goodness.

I suspect it's your white goods which need upgrading.

mrsbaldwin · 19/03/2009 01:12

The bit where I had the orgasm (this was last week so still fresh in my mind) was when, after almost 24 hours with just TENS and gas and air, they decided DS needed a yank with a ventouse, so they gave me a numbing injection. The absence of pain flooded across my body ... oh, oh, OHHH!!

kentmumtj · 23/03/2009 12:23

orgasms are an intense feeling of pleasure childbirth HURTS

Goober · 23/03/2009 12:28

Bruce Willis got married ?!?!?!?
But I love him.

choosyfloosy · 23/03/2009 12:33

Apparently my mother has experienced this.

However, she allegedly told my sister this when neither of us had children. Personally I think it could well have been outrageous propaganda, either to make us have children, or to make us stop running around with unsuitable chaps and start popping out babies.

Clarinet60 · 23/03/2009 12:40

OK - I'm prepared to admit to having one. Not during the actual birth (which was horrendous baby-stuck ventouse agony BTW), but before the contractions became painful, when they were just like strong period pains and for some reason, I said yes to Meptid (an injection similar to Pethadine.) The drug changed each contraction into an orgasm for about 5 minutes, after which I lost consciousness, then woke up about an hour later in hideous pain, with all anaesthetic having worn off but still feeling woozy. It was foul. Which is why I pull faces when people say relaxation takes the pain away - I couldn't have been any more relaxed than that, and it was still agony.

So yes, it is possible, but IME, only as an odd reaction to a rather unpleasant drug.

megcleary · 23/03/2009 12:45

there was a big piece in the sunday times magazine on this yesterday i think

shortcircuit · 23/03/2009 17:22

DD2 being born was a very fast labour & I can certainly relate to the contractions being very intense, verging on orgasmic. I had this gripping sensation that went up & up & up & sort of shook me, then came crashing down.

I arrived at hospital at 7cms & she was born half an hour later. I gave birth standing up - perhaps that makes a difference ?

CoteDAzur · 23/03/2009 17:26

Oh FFS. Yet another measure by which we can say we failed in childbirth.

Pruners · 23/03/2009 17:27

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Pruners · 23/03/2009 17:28

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belgo · 23/03/2009 17:33

I think it's just an unusual biological phenomonem (sp?). Something to do with the hormones reaslised during labour - oxytocin and endorphins - they certainly gave me a dreamy like feeling in my third labour.

hf128219 · 23/03/2009 17:38

Definitely not. It felt more like someone ramming a red hot poker up my arse if I remember correctly.

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