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post #21 of 35
4/5/07 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by teeny_bean View Post
Like the pain? Not really. LOVE the whole experience, including the pain? ABSOLUTELY.

To me, the pain was an integral part of an amazing, empowering, life-altering experience; I can't imagine being numbed to any part of it. I can't say that I liked the pain itself, but I definitely wouldn't have wanted to deliver without it. Plus the post-delivery endorphin high is just unbelievable.

I wish I could have said this. I wish I could feel like this, and looking back now that my kids have been born I do feel this way, but by the second day of each of my labors I was screaming for a C-section at the neck!

No, I do not like the pain. I go through it because I know that is what is best for me and the safest for the baby. I do get excited those first few contractions that really, and I mean really, hurt, but after about hour 15 or 20 I'm ready to get this show on the road!

When I plan my next birth I envision it very calm, serene and beautiful. WHich is how I imagined both of the others! I've rented the birth pool, used the ball, go t my breathing down. I think I do a prety good job staying on top of the contractions, but my labors last so daggone long that once I let the pain and lack of sleep get me down I lose it.

Now pushing, I can do that. Once I get the feeling, I only push for about 5 minutes.
post #22 of 35
4/5/07 at 12:45am
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Originally Posted by teeny_bean View Post

The nurses were surprised when I was getting out of bed, sitting cross-legged, and walking around. (I mean, my perineum was still sore for weeks after delivery, but... you all know what I mean.) I wonder if it takes longer for women who've had pain relief to recover from labor, since they don't have that endorphin rush to help them deal with it? Does anyone who has experienced both natural and medicated childbirth have an opinion on that?

Yes! When I was a surrogate I had an epidural. It took me a long time to recover. I couldn't walk for about four days afterwards because I'd injured my sciatic nerve pushing and didn't know it due to the epidural.

My second child was a drug-free homebirth and I was fine afterward. I showered as soon as the baby fell asleep nursing.

My third was a hospital transfer for non emergency reasons. No drugs either. the nurses were completely shocked when I didn't need any pain meds after, not even motrin, they said I was the only one who didn't. I was in the shower within a half an hour.
post #23 of 35
4/5/07 at 12:00pm
I love giving birth. I don't mind the pain (especially once it is over ). I would give birth a hundred more times, if I didn't have to be pregnant for ten months first!!! Pregnancy is MUCH more uncomfortable than birthing.

Sweetpea
post #24 of 35
4/5/07 at 2:17pm
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Originally Posted by sweeetpea View Post
I love giving birth. I don't mind the pain (especially once it is over ). I would give birth a hundred more times, if I didn't have to be pregnant for ten months first!!! Pregnancy is MUCH more uncomfortable than birthing.

Sweetpea
Ten months?
post #25 of 35
4/5/07 at 2:45pm
I had the birth experience of my dreams, but I didn't enjoy the pain.

I felt humbled, completely pushed to and past my limits. I had the feeling too that labor was not really working, so it was hard to stay calm and positive. In some ways I felt like I was being pushed through a brick wall. I remember what it felt like, too. I was overjoyed afterwards, and felt good, but no birth amnesia for me. It was hard, hard work.

I'm due again in Semptember. I'm so looking forward to holding this baby, and I hope everything goes just as well. I feel confident that I can do it at home again w/o meds, but I'm not looking forward to the pain at all.
post #26 of 35
4/5/07 at 3:49pm
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Originally Posted by SusannaG View Post
Ten months?
The time it takes for the moon to go around once and be in the same position as before is 28 days. Gestation is 10 x 28 days. Since we have months like 30 and 31 days, we usually count it as closer to 9 months.
post #27 of 35
4/5/07 at 3:56pm
LOVED IT!!! The whole experience was amazing!
post #28 of 35
4/5/07 at 3:56pm
LOVED IT!!! The whole experience was amazing!
post #29 of 35
4/5/07 at 3:56pm
I didn't get to experience the pain involved with labor and birth with my first pregnancy. I'd planned a birthing center waterbirth, but the baby turned breech around 36 weeks and I was transferred to an OB's care since the birthing center had a policy against "high risk" patients. I ended up having a scheduled cesarean because my daughter refused to get out of her breech position.

Fortunately, the same OB that my midwives transferred me to is closely associated with the birthing center and is happy to accomodate 'unorthodox' birthing plans. I'm planning a hospital WBAC and I'm looking forward to all the aspects of a natural birth, pain included, because with my first birth, I felt like I was merely a spectator and played little to no part on the day of my daughter's entry to the world. I don't want that to happen again. Reading the responses in here makes me look forward to it all the more.
post #30 of 35
4/5/07 at 3:59pm
Up to a certain point, it's just an amazing feeling... but I had one very rough birth, and it was really a traumatic experience for me.

But for my births that went well, yes, often the contractions felt more like energy pouring through me...
post #31 of 35
4/5/07 at 5:25pm
No, I don't like pain, but I adore giving birth and being pregnant
post #32 of 35
4/5/07 at 10:53pm
the coolest thing about natural birth is you'll walk away, ok, well you'll hobble away from it thinking "I am one bad ass!"
post #33 of 35
4/6/07 at 2:35pm
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Originally Posted by EKilgore View Post
the coolest thing about natural birth is you'll walk away, ok, well you'll hobble away from it thinking "I am one bad ass!"
YES!!! I found this to be true. You do get a real feeling of accomplishment! (pain aside)
post #34 of 35
4/6/07 at 6:02pm
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Originally Posted by EKilgore View Post
the coolest thing about natural birth is you'll walk away, ok, well you'll hobble away from it thinking "I am one bad ass!"
My husband actually said to me, "you were pretty badass there", after DS was born!
post #35 of 35
4/7/07 at 8:16pm
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Originally Posted by AugustLia23 View Post
Nope, I did not like the pain. But I realized it's purpose and I did not hate it either. I knew that the sensations were my body working for me and my baby to let him out, to open me up for him to pass through. I wasn't being harmed by this pain, and while the contractions would be so intense when they came on, once they were gone I was able to breath and talk and laugh again. And once he was born it all stopped, or didn't time stop too?, to welcome him into the world.
: Exactly.
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