Labor orgasm?

MiaMyPuggle · April 2011

I watched something on TV about having an orgasm during labor. Is this something that you just do or do you actually go over it with your MW or doula?!?! It's enticing to me b/c it's better to have that than the actual pain, but I'd be mortified for people to see that and know what was happening! It's like an orgy and I'd be the only participant. Weird! Did this happen to anyone or was that just for TV? I spoke with some friends, who have babies, about it and they don't see how that's possible!

BriannaHH · April 2011

I really hope that this is not true! The very idea of it makes me cringe. It also makes me laugh...but it is NOT funny if it might happen to me!

Please let this be a myth!

mattandbekah · April 2011

When I had Jack, there was a girl on the boards who swore she did. She never seemed crazy before, but that just seems very weird to me. Nothing about contractions was pleasurable to me, haha!

JosephsSweetie · April 2011

Yes, it's true; some women can and do. Rent the movie "Orgasmic Birth". I haven't seen it yet, but it's on my queue. I'm not looking for the experience, but I'm just curious about it!

lucky.girl1 · April 2011

I heard once that that was what the g-spot is for. Sort of a natural pain reliever.

WashingtonQueen · April 2011

Weird, weird, weird! I dont understand how it would happen at all.

eortman · April 2011

I would have to say that of all the things I can think of labor least resembles an orgasm. At least, it sure didn't for me.

fabfive · April 2011

there was NOTHING orgasmic about birthing my twins...pretty sure this time will be the same.

MBNB · April 2011

After giving birth, I cannot imagine how that would happen. Nor would I want it to since you're kinda focused on another task at that moment. And then, how would you feel it if you have an epidural?? Just wondering.

mabst196 · April 2011

I've not known a single person (at least that fessed up to it). I most certainly did not.

Lissa832 · April 2011

The only "happy ending" I had was DS being born healthy. There is nothing pleasurable, IMO, about labor and delivery other than seeing your baby.

bargar18 · April 2011

hells-to-the-NO...i don't see how the words organsm and birth can possibly used in the same sentence. everything about birth was painful and uncomfortable.

animalcrckers · April 2011

i didnt have one personally but one of my friends works at a birth center and she told me when i was pregnant with DD#1 that it was totally possible.

eli_and_jeff · April 2011

Orgasm has been a natural remedy for bad menstrual cramps forever, so I guess it's possible, but, um, "inducing" an orgasm in front of the medical team and doula, with DH looking on is way too weird for me.

love_melongtime · April 2011

MiaMyPuggle:
I watched something on TV about having an orgasm during labor. Is this something that you just do or do you actually go over it with your MW or doula?!?! It's enticing to me b/c it's better to have that than the actual pain, but I'd be mortified for people to see that and know what was happening! It's like an orgy and I'd be the only participant. Weird! Did this happen to anyone or was that just for TV? I spoke with some friends, who have babies, about it and they don't see how that's possible!

I am LOL at this entire paragraph. Are you thinking you'd like to discuss this with your doula and see how you can try to make it happen, or what?! I have heard of women experiencing this before (only on tv documentaries), but it's not like for them labor is just one giant orgasm and therefore they felt no pain...

grace_smith03 · April 2011

Bwhahahaha! I'm thinking it's like a unicorn or Nessie....fun to think about, and keeps us distracted...

Although *after* the baby is out...blessed, blessed relief...you're totes giddy. But definitely not *o* giddy.

Pearly609 · April 2011

SO and I are trying perineal massages and "hoping" this baby is a pleasureable experience. If not, I'm enjoying the massage time.

MrsM1113 · April 2011

Pearly609:
SO and I are trying perineal massages and "hoping" this baby is a pleasureable experience. If not, I'm enjoying the massage time.

My delivery nurse was massaging my perineal area during labor, to lessen the chance that I'd have a tear. I knew they did that, and figured that's what she was doing, but all I could feel was some (painless) pressure. When she left the room, my mom looked at me in horror and asked, "What on EARTH is that nurse doing to your vagina?!?!?" Guess they didn't do perineal massages back in the 80s. Lol

DreamaJoy24 · April 2011

I think I was watching A Baby Story on TLC and a woman was trying water birth at a birth center. She was making the strangest noises and my husband walked in and thought I was watching porn! I think maybe she was having an orgasm during her birth? Lol

NurseLaLa · April 2011

eli_and_jeff:
Orgasm has been a natural remedy for bad menstrual cramps forever, so I guess it's possible, but, um, "inducing" an orgasm in front of the medical team and doula, with DH looking on is way too weird for me.

The orgasm isn't induced, hahaha God damn that'd be creepy.

The women transform their pain into something else that eventually turns into something more pleasurable than disappointing. It makes sense, though, because both orgasms, pain, and labor use many of the same hormones.

desmerelda317 · April 2011

There are some serious misconceptions about what an orgasm during birth is in this post lol. Think of it this way - your baby is coming out of your vagina, and it is totally possible for that baby's head to rub against/stimulate your clitoris, vagina, etc. So for some women an orgasm can happen due to that fact. It is NOT induced by the nurse or midwife as a means of reducing pain. And it usually happens only at the very very end of the birth and doesn't last long at all. It isn't like the woman is in one 13 hour long state of ecstasy because her labor keeps giving her orgasms with every contraction - that would be weird. As far as I know, the occurance of an orgasm at the time of delivery is rare. I wouldn't count on it happening to you.

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