Explain Childbirth To Me.?
For all the mothers out there would you care to explain to me exactally what you felt before during and after childbirth? My hubbyand I are TTC our first, and I just watched a video of a “natural” birth and it looked like the woman was going to crawl out of her skin. Also, how long were you sore afterwards?
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October 5th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Watch hypnobirthing on youtube. These women are smiling through contractions. The contraction is only a wave of sensation to them. These are amazing births. Take a look. Most of them happen in water. A water birth is the the ultimate in childbirth and if you combine that with a hired trained professional, like a midwife and/or doula and you combine this with hypnobirthing you have an incredible experience. These women are actually empowered by childbirth, you can see it on their faces as the baby emerges. This feeling of empowerment lasts a lifetime. You will always have a feeling of achievement when you give birth drug free. Check it out. Amazing.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Every woman’s experience with childbirth is different, but each one is always incredible and life changing. There is no greater feeling than carrying your baby to term and then finally giving birth and seeing him or her for the first time. It hurts, but the pain does go away. With my first child I was in labor for a very long time, and I pushed and pushed for hours it felt like.. I was in horrible pain, I was tired, I thought I was about to die… and finally he came out and I saw him and honestly I thought “I don’t want anymore!”… I was in love with him the moment they laid his bloody little body on my chest. he looked up and me and i bursted into tears… I had never ever felt real love until i saw those eyes looking at me… it was like he knew i was his mom and that he was saying “hi, thanks for giving me life!”.. anyways, my second baby was much less painful. I practically sneezed her out. (she was a premie) I was so worried for her health, and she was so small.. when i saw her i started crying because i was scared for her life.. when they determined she was alright and they laid her on me i was completely in love again.. the same as the first time.. this time bigger. because i knew what a wonderful and precious gift life is. I did not let her leave my sight the whole time i was in the hospital… I wasn’t in any pain after giving birth to her.. in fact i was up and walking around right afterwards.. I didn’t actually hurt until I had to poop for the first time.. that hurt. but it was worth it.. it must be worth it because now my husband and i are trying for our third!
October 5th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I had a natural childbirth and it was no big deal. If you are interested in natural childbirth, take the Bradley Birthing class. You can find the nearest one by going online.
You are sore a little while but it heals up just fine and you never even think about it because you have a little beautiful baby in your arms.
I hope I am lucky enough to have a second go at it!
Good luck you you and don’t worry. this is what women’s bodies were made for.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Well the whole experience is great. Not always but in a whole its all good. Once i got over my morning sickness my pregnancy was okay (no pregnancy is easy). Labor was terrible but extremely worth it. You forget all of the pain when you see your baby. I was sore for about 3 months. BUT i tore so bad, i had a natural birth and had a 9lb 8oz boy and the doc say i tore as bad as he had seen. (that made me feel very good!) it took about an hour to stitch me up! I’m sure this makes you feel really good.
Don’t focus on the bad focus on the good. Labor hopefully only last a few hours but having your baby lasts a lifetime. Good Luck and i hope this helped.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Pain, pain and more pain. Every woman is different. From experience, it feels like menstural cramps 100 times worse. Go for the epideral. Why be in pain and not be able to enjoy childbirth.The pain starts getting bad when you are dialated to around 4 or 5, but at 5 or 6 is when they will give you an epideral.
October 6th, 2009 at 12:09 am
i had an epidural and felt nothing .. it was wonderful and i was able to be awake and knowing when my daughter came out .. they had to cut me as well and after all that the next day it was pretty painful and for the next week but when u have your child there u dont even care . i figure they made the epidural to be used and y hurt if u dont have to . could push and she came out just fine
October 6th, 2009 at 12:32 am
I had an epidural with both my daughters so I could not tell you how painful pushing was because I was numbed. But when I went into labor naturally with our first daughter it hurt BAD. The contractions were coming fast and strong and it would double me over,my hubby actually had to pretty much carry me to the car,and had to help me get into the hospital gown at the hospital,but after the epidural kicked in I felt perty dang good! Afterwards when the epi. wore off I was pretty sore because I tore and had to get 18 stitches so I was swollen and in pain for about 1 week,and then it subsided day by day until it didn’t hurt anymore.
With our second daughter I had to be induced because I was almost 2 weeks overdue and the cord was wrapped around her neck(did not know this until she was born) but the contractions were much more painful and came on faster than when I went into labor naturally.I toughed it out until I was dialted to about 6 cms almost 7cms and got the epidural and once again,felt great.My second epidural wasn’t like my first though because with my first I couldn’t feel ANYTHING from about my eyeballs down,with my second I could still kind of feel what was going on but my bottom was numbed so I did not experience full fledge pain of the pushing. My second did not tear me and it actually didn’t hurt that bad when the epidural wore off..ofcourse I was swollen beyond belief down there but it subsided in a day or two and everything was good to go.
When in labor naturally it becomes really hectic and stressful.Everyone is running around(well at least when I went into labor they were…not everyone does this) and I never yelled or screamed at anyone except for once when I was having a contraction in the hospital(in the corridor while waiting for my mom to park the car) and these 2 nurses were staring at me like they’ve never seen a pregnant women in the hospital before(and I HATE people staring at me when I’m in pain,I dunno why I guess I’m just weird) so I yelled at my hubby”PUSH ME SOMEWHERE DAMNIT” so he did and that was the only time I raised my voice…my mom said she was so proud because she almost ripped my dad’s head off when she gave birth to all 5 of us kids(all hers were natural births…no drugs at all through the whole thing) and my brothers had some pretty dam* big heads so yeah..
For everyone it varies but for the most part it hurts and usually the pain subsides within a week or two