Worst thing you did during labor?

NADA-H · July 2014

- ate dinner when my contractions were 1 min long and 3 mins apart, I was hungry...it came out violently late into my labor during super strong contractions. my throat was burning till the second day.

- got an epidural which did not take full affect and wore off within 1.5 hours and that led to a series of interventions (a cycle of topping it off and getting more pitocin) and eventually I had to deal with the pitocin contractions with 0 pain meds with full sensation while strapped to the bed.

-I was doing the wrong type of breathing for a long while into my labor, when I realised that and remembered the breathing I should do it took the edge off completely.

shortstack930 · August 2014

After pushing for almost two hours I asked my OB if she could just vacuum the baby out. She calmly told me her head wasn't even far down enough for that even if she wanted to. Ended up with a c-section anyway bc her head wouldn't fit through my pelvis.

coco62014 · August 2014

I gave my DH an ambien so he could get a "good" nights sleep on the couch while they started to induce me. Nurse told us it was our last night of sleep for 18 years, ha ha. Well Less than 2 hours later I was getting an emergency C section. My poor husband was coherent but definitely glassy eyed. I kept asking if he was ok during the surgery and the docs thought I meant he was going to faint. I didn't want them to know what was really going on...

TugboatSheila · August 2014

My son was sunny side up and somehow even with an epidural his little head just mutilated my colon with each contractions which lead me to painfully shit the bed 4 times... In front of both sets of parents.

Once he was born and they handed him to me I said "I can't believe we made him from scratch!" The OB laughed.

darkangel42 · August 2014

I was fairly well behaved with this one actually (with DD1, it was most certainly not the case).

While transitioning, it hurt so each contraction came with me saying increasingly violent I things I wanted to do to my OH. The midwife and student midwife thought this was very funny.

Katzalia · August 2014

Oh man, it's good to laugh about this stuff. I held off getting an epidural because I don't do well with anasthesia. A couple hours into pushing, I turn to the nurse to say I feel sick -- and threw up all over her. I felt terrible about it, and mortified.

MrsKubley · August 2014

When the dr came and the pushing was about to start she made a comment to the effect of "oh! That's a lot of hair!" I said "geez I'm sorry I couldn't really reach to take care of it"

Yeah....she meant the baby was crowning and he had a lot of hair...

lgsdesigner · August 2014

When I had my son, I was trying for a non-medicated birth. I made it to 8cm with no meds and was handling it fairly well. I was concentrating on a red light on the wall and in the middle of deep meditation, the nurse asks me a damn insurance question. It breaks my concentration, I feel all the pain, get reallllly angry and took the washcloth my mom had on my head and flung it at the wall saying "I don't need this stupid sh*t!"

Not one of my best moments...

FAWKES81 · August 2014

The anesthesiologist was in the room asking me about my pain level etc and while he was asking me I begin puking from pain. He keeps egging me on asking for a "number" of my pain level. Between heaves I called him an asshole. He's the ONLY person that got called a bad name the entire time, but he was asking for it. After that he said, well that's what I was waiting for and came back in a gave me the epi.

alisonc87 · August 2014

I was induced due to pre-e, and when they put in the news to make me dilate I started having contractions 3 minutes apart (28 total hours of this was no fun). After about 14 hours I decided on an epidural. I may have implied to my amazing OB-GYN that he was great and all, but the most important person in the process was the anesthesiologist. My epidural only lasted about an hour at a time, and he was the only one there and had 2 diffferent surgeries scheduled for the afternoon, so a few times he came in after I had been "undrugged" for 2 ish hours, and you would have sworn I saw a rock star walk in the room! I thanked my OB-GYN profusely the next day for being amazing as well, but in the moment: the man with the drugs was number 1! Lol

Jbosarge85 · August 2014

My birth was all natural and i actually loved it. I luckily didn't poop during pushing. I remember at one point the nurse started putting the monitor on me and I was in the middle of a contraction, I smacked her hand away and said don't touch me. After, I apologized because I felt bad, she was a great nurse.

str13 · August 2014

When I was having DD I was getting an epi and MH didnt want to see the needle so the nurse held my hand and comforted me. It hurt so bad that I squeezed her hand really hard and left fingernail marks in her poor hand. I felt awful and apologized everytime I saw her.

aedajdm123 · August 2014

I was induced on my due date on 7-24-14 at 7 pm due to high blood pressure. I never felt any pain until the next day around 3 pm I thought that the pain was gonna be worse I mean it was bad not like I thought. They gave me one dose of fetnal I went to sleep woke up in pain got the epi dr went to break my water but it was already broken n was at 10cm pushed for about 30 mins wanted to punch boyfriend for being on his phone updateing everyone while he was holding my legs over all pretty easy everyone said I was the calmest person they have seen deliver

BostonGayGal · August 2014

My second ever internal exam was the most painful thing I had ever experienced. I asked my midwife whether she was straight and she said that she was. I told her that was good thing because she would make a horrible lesbian.

She asked me later if she could tell that story.

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