OMG! Its just registered that I'm gona have to give birth to this baby!

[memoo]

I've done it twice before but last one was 8 years ago and all I remember is that IT HURTS!!!

Does anyone have any tips for getting through labour relatively unscathed? (if that is even possible )

Really don't want an epidural as had one with DD and I had a lot of trouble afterwards and tbh it didn't work that well anyway!

TIA xx

Ach, it's your third, so it'll just fly out.

Seriously, good luck. It does hurt like nothing else on earth, doesn't it? How are you with pethidine?

I'm fine with pethidine, sends me to sleep though which probably isn't a bad thing really.

Memoo i could have posted the same thread lol!!

Im pg with number 3 and my last was 8yrs ago, and its just starting to register that i have to get the baby out im going through the "how can i get this baby born without me knowing it" feelings lol! even considering asking for a c section and being put to sleep for it My last 2 dds where big 9lbs13oz and 8lbs13oz and the thought of pushing out a big baby now terrifies me!!!!!!!!!

Ssshhhh be quite. I'm trying to forget that the day will come when I'll have to push this baby out of me!!! lol

Pinkbump, I thought my DD was big at 9lb5 but you beat me!!!

Hunny, I think you're right, it we all just pretend its not going to happen then maybe it won't LOL

I can't believe that I have done this before, I'm sure people expect you to be really relaxed about it when you've already had a couple but I think I'm even more scared then when I had my first. Ignorance was most definately bliss!

Yeah this is my first and I think ignorance defo is bliss.
I'm sure it wont be bliss when it actually starts coming out of me tho lol

Memoo, you made my nortning and brought back alot of memories!

I remember that moment last time. It literally stops you in your tracks. I can recall thinking " there's only one way its coming out!"

But , don't worry - we forget about it after......otherwise we would NEVER do it again.

I am carrying number 2 and not that worried this time.

This is my first pregnancy, am 30 weeks and petrified of giving birth, every day i push the thought to the back of my mind as if its not gonna happen, so i deal with it whe the time comes. Not looking forward to the pain xx

It's painful, but it's useful pain. That's how I got through it. Not like a broken bone or when my basket of a dentist left half my nerve in after a root canal attempt... contractions are doing something good, and so they can't be that bad.

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