Please tell me how painful is childbirth?
if childbirth were truly painful, why don't women pass out? i have passed out from pain. i also have been to the point where i could not move and i had to go to a very quiet place away from light, sounds, and people.
if childbirth were truy painful, how would women be able to stand the hospital lights and the nurses and people around them making so much noise? also, how can they lay in one bed in one spot, particularly on their backs? being on my back is the last place i would want to be in pain.
please be honest. and please no watermelon analogies. that is not helpful when i hear about a watermelon lol. thanks.
Answer:
For one, childbirth is not a constant pain. It is a constant wave of pain that comes on stronger and stronger with each wave. A woman's endorphins have time to react to the intensity of each contraction to allow some natural releif. If these hours and hours of labor was the constant peak of pain, most women probably would pass out! As far as tolerating the hospital and all the extra noise and commotion, some women choose not to handle this and have their babies at home. Most homebirths have a healthy outcome, and have the same mortality rate for moms and babies that hospitals do. However, a lot of women have no health coverage for home births and the only way they can afford the birth is to be at a hospital.
On her back is the WORST place for a woman to be while in labor. It slows labor and makes pushing all the more difficult as mom is pushing against gravity. It can also lead to tears in the perineum, and that can cause other issues later on. Hospitals are becoming more aware that women labor best when they are moving around as they see fit, taking warm baths to ease pain, rocking, using birth balls, and using other methods for pushing, like squatting or sitting on a birthing stool.
The more you educate yourself about your pregnancy and labor, the less scared you should be. Find a natural childbirth class, read up on books by Henci Goer, Ina May Gaskin, and by Penny Simkin as they lead a non-threatening look into pregnancy and labor, much differently than some of the other pregnancy books you'll find out there.
Hire a doula for your own labor, you'll find that your need for pain meds will drop and you're risk of interventions that are usually not necessary but only used as a precaution (which can cause more stress and pain) are avoided.
its a pain you cant explain you will understand once you have gone throug it that you really cant explain it.
labor is like the most painful cramps you have ever had x 1000. i had contractions one on top of the other for an hour and a half until the doctor got their with my pain meds. it hurt so much that i couldn't even talk because all you can do is concentrate on the pain. you don't pass out because that's just the way your body works. i am really good with pain, but this was pretty bad.
Child birth is very painful, there is really no way to describe it but you almost come out of your body to cope with the pain plus ther are always drugs if it gets unbearable. I think what ets you through is knowing that you are going to see your baby for the very first time whicj is soo overwhelming, when they put the baby on your chest yo forget about the whole things until yo are pregnant again and it all comes back to you. Try taking a birthing class to learn differsnt positions and breating techniques that can really elp get trough, I have had three babies the first I had a epidual which was great, the second was a c-section which was horrible and the third was olny with demoerl which only works for a short period of time but I delived feeling everything and was scared to push through the pain but you just do it and it's over.
Childbirth is one of the best pains I have ever been in. You cant explain it...but the outcome oversees everything else. As far as lights and sounds.when you are in the labor room you can have the room how ever you like..no lights, no sounds! How ever you want to be you can get! At least I did! I had 15 friends and family members in the room along with 7 nurses and doctors! IT was the best!
It's a completely natural pain that is unlike any other pain, and there is no chance of passing out because it is natures way of ensuring childbirth goes well.
I think that gas and air made me more likely to pass out than the pain!
Pain caused by illness is so different than childbirth, and to be honest I found it to be bearable, but the toothache I had two weeks after was much worse- so intolerable I actually told the dentist that I prefered childbirth to the toothache.
I asked for medication when my labor got too painful, and then I felt great and excited and had a great time. Normally I"m scared of needles, but one second and it was over.
I ended up needing an emergency C-section, so actually the recovery was more painful than the birth.
But 2 babies later they're so sweet and wonderful and fill me with so much love that I can hardly remember the pain.
Childbirth hurts like hell! I chose not to have pain medicine for the birth of my child, and it was a wonderful, painful experience. Just knowing I got her here all under my own steam was the ultimate!
i had 2 c-sections so i dont know what it is like to have a vaginal birth. During the c-sections i felt nothing, of course i was druged. The healing process with my first was really painful. It felt as though my stomach was litterly being ripped apart everytime i barely moved even on medication for the pain. My second c-section healing process was awesome. I had no pain at all through out it all. It was perfect. My friend just had a 10lb baby girl with no pain meds at all. Her baby ripped her from hoo hoo to poo poo all the way. I heard it all over the phone and I thanked GOD I had to have c-sections after hearing that. I thought i was missing something. im NOT. She even had a really hard healing process as well. I am now having my 3rd child due in May and i am praying it will be just like my second. good luck with u in ur child bearing choices. i dont know if u are preg or not. And God Bless
It is painful, but not too bad. The contractions are just like cramps, but gradually gain in intensity and length. While you're pushing, it's more like a relief than pain. It really feels good to push when the time comes. Your body just kicks in and helps you along the way. Once the baby begins to come to the end of his/her passage there is some pain, but after all the work you've done, this is minor. Just knowing you'll see the little person that you've made is great!
The lights, machines, docs and all of the props are merely a blur in the midst of labor. During the contractions, and even the pushing you don't have to stay on you back. It is the easiest for everyone in those last moments and last pushes. Otherwise you can pretty much do what makes you the most comfortable.
Just don't get too worried. Everything will happen naturally and if you need pain meds, get them. There is no shame in having help. I wish you the best!
I had my first baby 1 month ago....I thought giving birth was the easy part since I threw up the whole pregnancy. I would have a couple more kids if it wasn't for the sickness. On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the highest amount of pain my pain was about a 2 for an hour after the epidural I felt nothing, not one pain during pushing. Honestly, it's different for everybody. Well worth everything though!
Most of the pain is the contractions. I had back labor, so it was like the worst back pain ever. I felt kind of like I slept for 12 hours on a bumpy rock, I felt like I couldn't move. When it was time to push it felt something like terrible diarrhea. When my gigantic son started coming out, the best way I can describe it is stretching and pressure, but at the same time, it felt relieving. I ripped really bad and didn't know that I had ripped at all. So delivery is fine, labor sucks.
In Addition:
chamely is right! I did a lot of my pushing on the chair that's shaped like a V, and it was great! If you can get yourself into a birthing center rather than a hospital, that would be the best. That's what I did even when my son came out not breathing, they had an emergency team on hand and ready for anything, but I still got the feel of being at home. Plus if you can get yourself a doula, you will be much better off. I would take a doula over pain meds in a second.
Childbirth, the labor part, starts with a crampiness in your back moves around to your lower abdomen and then the crampiness, turns into your stomach getting harder and harder, it actually tightens REALLY tight. Then when the contractions start to fade, your tummy loosens from top to bottom, and thus starts the long and tideous labor part of labor and delivery. The contractions start off weak in the beginning and continually grow in strength.
The delivery part is a more intense pressure, more than pain. When it's time for the baby to crown, you feel an unbearable pressure and BURNING (that's why it's called the "ring of fire"). Once the head's out, the body just slips out. And that's pretty much how it happened for me. Good luck and Congrats!
I'm gonna be honest here.
For me, it was mind-bendingly painful, but also indescribably beautiful. I have never felt so relieved as I did when my son was finally in my arms for the first time! It was so awesome. And the pain is temporary. Yes, it hurt, but then it ended. It won't last forever!
I agree--flat on your back is not the way to do it. I went natural (fear of needles). As my labor progressed, I labored at a Chinese restaurant (7pm), on the couch (10pm), and then lot in my bed and in the shower at home (11pm to 3am). When we went to the hospital around 3:30, I was 6 cm. I took another shower and tried out the exercise ball, and then I didn't want to move around anymore. I stayed mostly on my side, and then kind of sat up reclined for the pushing and delivery parts. My beautiful boy was born at 11:42am.
I also agree about the poking and proding. I was highly annoyed at first, but I got to a point where it didn't even phase me. You get into the zone when it's really go time. My nurse is one of my heroes!
If you want a really good class that will prepare you for the birth experience, take a Bradley class. It helped me so much.
I hope this is helpful for you! Good luck!! :)
if childbirth were truly painful, why don't women pass out? Some women do.
if childbirth were truy painful, how would women be able to stand the hospital lights and the nurses and people around them making so much noise Some women don't.
also, how can they lay in one bed in one spot, particularly on their backs? They don't...I guess you've never expierenced childbirth?
Please tell me how painful is childbirth? TAke your bottom lip and pull it up over the top of your head and down your back to your feet...That is pretty much how painful it is...
Why do you think WOMEN give birth and not men? If men had to endure childbirth the species would have ended with Adam.
I had my Son in the Hospital, and it was awful. I was in labor many hours, they gave me a saddle block, but I had No stiches from a 10 1/2 lb baby.
I hated the Hospital so much, I had my daughter at Home, I had natural child birth, I walked around my house, and I did different things in between contractions. Took something mild for pain, not drugs from the doctor, something that relaxed me.
When it started to get Bad and I was really yelling, the women who was Helping me, spoke to me and Said Relax, and some how I just completely relaxed, and then I was able to feel my daughter in the birth canal, PUSHING HERSELF INTO THIS WORLD. IT WAS AWESOME, IT is something most Women never expereiance because they are giving drugs. It is What you are suppose to expereince as a WOMEN, It was so Wonderful, I was in a Trance like state for days, I was so peaceful.
I guess it depends on if you deliver naturally or with drugs. I chose the epideral and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I can honestly say that childbirth did not hurt at all for me. I asked for my epideral as soon as I started feeling contractions (I was induced). If you choose to go natural then I hear it hurts a lot. I was lucky and I did not tear nor did I need an episiotomy, therefore, my recovery was pretty easy too. I've had cramps worse than childbirth pain. Bottom line: If you're concerned about the pain, get the epideral. Good luck!
You can have an epideral, which I highly suggest if you dont want to feel any pain. Usually, they work well & you cannot feel anything from the waist down after they give it to you. I had my first child w/an epideral & my 2nd child natural - I dont sugest the natural route because yes, it does hurt
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