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Babies on the Brain
Birth
I want to try to start conceiving in January with my husband. I'm gung ho for having a baby in our life, I'm just terrified that giving birth is going to be the worst pain imaginable. Any words/advice? Anyone?
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Re: Birth
To put it lightly, it felt like I was birthing a watermelon lined with razor blades.
Good luck.
It IS the most horrible pain imaginable! There is nothing worse! I'm not sure why women even bother having babies anymore. It's practically suicidal.
Don't do it!
SAHM to two sweet girls, both born at home; Baby #3 in 2013!
seriously? I think the lady that got shot in the stomach by her ex-husband and had to have tons of surgery, in horrible pain. Or the son that set his moms head/hair on fire because she would not give him her pain medicine to be pretty horrible pain.
But, you have a little bit of pain that can be controlled and you get a awesome kick assss present at the end and you consider that worst pain imaginable? hmmmmmmmm...call me crazy!
LOL!
Watch some Baby Story on TLC and see if you think you'll like it
Honestly, it's really not that bad. It hurts but it's tolerable, at least it was for me.
Oh boy am I looking forward to what the next few weeks have to hold.
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
My epidural didn't work with my 1st, so that was fun. I had 22hrs of back labor. It felt like someone was pulling my spine out of my a$$. I told my DH "my a$$ is going to tear open and I'm going to need a colostomy bag". I begged for a c-section. My OB wouldn't do it. I uttered every expletive known to man. I begged God to take me or just let me black out from the pain. God didn't listen.
With my 2nd, I refused to even try the epi (in addition to it not working, it caused a TON of problems that I don't care to ever experience again). The labor wasn't bad. The delivery...OMG. DH thought she was coming out of my a$$. Yeah, but that wasn't her.....that was part of my colon, complete with 'roids that continue to give me grief. I wasn't pushing, but she wanted out. She forced herself out - slicing me from top to bottom (peeing burned like crazy) like I was birthing Freddie Krueger.
Needless to say, I am NOT looking forward to doing it again!
This is the brute reality people.
*faints*
SAHM to two sweet girls, both born at home; Baby #3 in 2013!
I should probably add that I recovered REALLY fast. As soon as they came out, it was instant relief. I had a small tear each time, but no problems at all. There was that road rash thing (I think that's what they call it) with my 2nd that burned when I peed because it was right there, right in the stream.
But, nothing a few nice baths didn't cure.
I try to remind myself of that when I start to flip out over doing it again.
My 2nd labor was only 4.5hrs start to finish and, aside from the violent delivery at the end, was pretty much pain free as far as contractions and all that goes.
In all seriousness, do some research about it. You will always hear horror stories but that can be true in all kinds of experiences.
To me, fear of the unknown is probably what makes people the most freaked out. If you know what's going on, how your body works and that what's happening is actually natural - you have an advantage.
If you decide to go natural, it definitely will be a challenge but as mentioned, with proper education you'll be fine.
SAHM to two sweet girls, both born at home; Baby #3 in 2013!
There are tears in my eyes. The word "slicing" made me physically cringe.
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I am frozen in terror. Once I can move, I will be sewing up my vag hole so that nothing will ever comeout of it.
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Don't breed til you educate yourself enough to realize that a c-section is not the easy way out.
By "slicing", I mean more like scraping. I didn't tear bad - had maybe 5 stitches. Didn't even feel it. But, sometimes, there is a road rash thing that happens.....TMI, but almost as if you took your nails and scratched yourself from your clitoris to your vagina. Scratches on the lips inside.
It didn't happen with my 1st, but my 2nd came out so fast, she scraped everything on the way out.
That actually hurt worse than the tear, which I barely even noticed by the time I left the hospital.
I still won't get an epidural though. The memory of that hell far outweighs labor and delivery.