How much noise did you make while pushing? - Page 2

[mama to 2 girls]

With dd1 I had an epi but it was starting to wear off and I was very grunty during pushing.

With dd2 I had no pain meds. (at a FSBC) and I kind of just growled during pushing....it's the only way I know how to explain it. It wasn't too loud.

With ds I had a homebirth (so obviously no pain meds) I SCREAMED during pushing, but he also weighed over 2lbs. more than my girls and also had a 11/2" bigger head than my girls.

[paquerette]

Very loud moaning and screaming. My midwife was trying to get me to put the energy I was putting into vocalizing into pushing, but I tried that and it seemed less effective. I really just needed to make that noise to get her out.

[barefootpoetry]

Very loud guttural groans. Like "eeeeeuuuuuuhhhhhhhhnnnnRRRRRRRUUUUHHHuhuhuhuhuhuu hhhhhh." I had been moaning very loudly in the latter part of active labor/transition, and I was trying to direct those moans down out through my vagina.

[*MamaJen*]

I had a really easy labor. I thought I'd be hollering and cursing like a sailor. But when I watched the birth video, I was surprised by how quiet I was. I was totally off in trippy hypnotized trance-like labor land. Honestly, if you just hear the audio, you'd think I was making a baby instead of having one. I made some low moaning sounds, and a little bit of grunting. After I finished crowning, I quietly gasped "oh my god." And when the baby was born, I say "Oh, yeah" in a really relieved voice.

[Mama Poot]

While pushing? A very high-pitched, loud, frantic, hyperventilating scream that gets worse and worse until crowning, then I calmed down because I knew the kid was gonna come out in a minute or two and the whole thing would be over I'm super-loud in labor, from the first contraction to the last, I'm making some kind of noise.

[IowaMom]

LOTS! Baby girl was just born three days ago so it's well ingrained in my mind at the moment. He keeps telling me that I did awesome, but I'm pretty sure I was screaming up a storm. I know I yelled, "I can't do this!" And "Just get her out!"

[Code Name Mama]

Very loud guttural moaning. dh said I sounded like Louis Armstrong
I pushed for 4ish hours, I had a very sore throat afterward!

[Viola]

Quite a lot. I can't watch the birth video with the sound on because of it.

[Limabean1975]

I made ALOT of noise, before and during pushing. My parents were in a waiting room across and down a large hallway, 5 rooms away, my door was of course closed and so was the waiting room door - AND THEY COULD HEAR ME. I am normally a quiet person. My parents were terrified!

[Limabean1975]

Originally Posted by *MamaJen*

Honestly, if you just hear the audio, you'd think I was making a baby instead of having one. I made some low moaning sounds, and a little bit of grunting. After I finished crowning, I quietly gasped "oh my god." And when the baby was born, I say "Oh, yeah" in a really relieved voice.

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[ChristSavesAll]

I yelled AAHHHH very loudly, screamed, growled, yelled at myself to stop pushing, oh and crying too (thankfully the pushing only lasted 20 min.)... I really was trying to keep quiet since I was UCing and ds (4) was there and told me before labor his biggest fear was me screaming. I really had no choice, the pain was shocking and took over my body. Poor kid, I ask him about it now and he tells me he went downstairs but could still hear me so he tried going in his room with the door closed and that was better . My husband tells people he has NEVER heard anyone scream like that before ... He also tried telling me to just moan instead of screaming and it would help, lol I nearly took his head off!

[leila1213]

I don't think I had any preconceptions about vocalization beforehand, but I had watched a lot of very very quiet hypnobirths. I just did what I felt like doing in the moment, and it was a grunty, groany moaning sound (kind of like PP describes as a "making baby" sound ). Pretty loud, probably, but I don't really think I could be objective about that. But it wasn't a reaction to the pain, because I really didn't have any. It was just the natural companion to the birth breathing I was doing, and the contracting that my body was doing.

What was really odd and almost embarrassing to me, was that my daughter was very "vocal" in her sleep for the first few months, and the noises she made sounded exactly like I did during pushing contractions!! It was like hearing myself give birth on a daily basis!

[Belle]

With my first baby I grunted for my first few pushes. The OB on call yelled at me for grunting and said it was counter-productive to me pushing. After a few strangled attempts at pushing without making noise I ignored the "order" to be quiet and grunted.

For my second baby (born at home), I made no attempts to stifle my grunts. A couple of times between pushes I yelled "HOLY S***!".

[elisent]

I could swear I was roaring with this last birth, but my husband claims I didn't really make any sound at all.

[barefootpoetry]

Originally Posted by elisent

I could swear I was roaring with this last birth, but my husband claims I didn't really make any sound at all.

Me too! I felt like I was yellign at the top of my lungs, but my midwives insisted that I "coped so well." I don't believe them though!

[Haselnuss]

I did a sort of low-pitched yelling or roaring with every push - not from pain, but from effort. With one of my births, I yelled "too big! too big! I'm going to tear!" during crowning, iirc (didn't actually tear at all) With another, I think I was yelling "out! out!" with the last few pushes. Poor DD, getting hollered at before she was even born!
The only actual screaming I did was during transition, with my 1st and 2nd births. Otherwise, it was mostly moaning in the 1st stage, and some very babyish whining.

[yeahwhat]

I make a lot of noise during transition/pushing. After my last baby, my voice was raw sounding for a couple of days. Just my way of coping with the intensity/pressure/pain.

[MaterPrimaePuellae]

I did not find vocalization during my unmedicated (sans slight pitocin at the end ) labor/pushing very comforting It made me feel like I was losing control/relaxation. I did grunt a little while pushing, but I mostly was silent to preserve air for pushing. I gasped pretty loudly when her head came out, though! That was a happy moment! :

ETA, I think part of this was also because I didn't want to scare my Dh. I would have thought this would be inhibiting, but thinking about someone besides myself actually kept me a bit calmer, I think-- it was all about love, not fear

[karlugato]

Originally Posted by Sparks*

I screamed really loud. I'll never forget my husband saying "ggrrrrr you're a tiger!...be a mean mad tiger!" I guess I sounded like I was roaring

HAHAHA mean mad tiger That's adorable!

I had one continuous AHHHH for about 6 minutes before my guy was born. It hurt so much to have to stop and take a breath. While I was pushing though, I just grunted a couple of times. I live in a duplex and later when I talked to the neighbor, she said she just thought our tv was on loud. heehee.

[abaad]

I screamed my head off. My husband couldn't hear out of his left ear for awhile. I am usually so quiet. I don't think I've ever really yelled or screamed in my life. It felt good.