ok, be honest!

[Freya]

Strange reply and maybe because i have a dodgy memory.
Both labours for me were OK really. Yes there was pain but I found breathing technique really helped me. I didn't have any stiches or anything though so can't comment on that.
I would say that it was an experience in life that is fantastic and I would like to do it again. The whole thing is amazing!

 

[weestar21]

sorry just need to pop this on

The mostest reason i will not go through it again was First birth was ok, only gas and air, went into labour naturaly ok she was tiny and very early but im sure labour was just as painfull as a full term baby.

Second time has put me off for life as i was induced and OMG it was alot worse think the midwife loved stepping teh drip up just to be wicked

just rememeber what i did

for every second of pain its a lifetime of pleasure

 

[Rubys mummy]

I asked a work collegue this question, she was PG with her 2nd, and I asked her about her first birth as I was so scared...she said "It was so awful, I thought I was going to die with the pain" Not what I needed to hear, and made me even worse..
She has her 2nd last week, and rang me...she went in hozzie at 4pm, and was home with baby by 8pm after having the easiest birth ever imaginable!!

Every birth is so different by the sound of it

Keep positive and breathe is the advice given to me, believe in yourself that you CAN do it.

Now STOP the bus coz I want to get off!!!! Soooooooooooooo frightened

 

[Melly+2]

i found it painful coz hope was back to back so with every contraction i got backache as well as in my belly

 

[Dee1985]

i agree zoe every birth is so different.

with Dior it was 18 hours of slow painfull labour i stayed 5cm for 6 hours and i was in bad pain from 3cm up to 10cm which was content for hours

but with Harley i was in pain only for 1 hour but the pain was hurrendous and worse then Dior. so it varys.
but if i have another i would rather long slow painfull. Harley was to fast and scary for me i was fine happy thinking i was constipated then with in 3 mins i was then on my hands and knees not being able to stand. and with in 30mins Harley was born

 

[Rosebay]

I got myself into such a state before having Eliiott that I think I'd imagined something so much worse than the reality for me! I was so so scared (sobbing in the back of the car on the way there "I've changed my mind, I don't want to do this") BUT it was no where near as bad as I feared for me. I have had very bad period pains for years and I can honestly say that it wasn't until the last 3 or 4 hours of the 18 hour labour that it hurt more than those. I had the TENS machine which I felt took my mind off it all and gave me something to concentrate on and feel like I was in control and when I got there I made more of a noise than I actually felt so that they gave me gas and air early on and I really felt secure with that in my hand! Moving around helped and I stood for about 10 hours kind of wiggling my hips but it was weird because my body took over. The most painful bit was the last push I guess but I was so away with the fairies on gas and air then that I knew it was painful but didn't really care- hard to explain but a bit like when you fall over when you're drunk! In fact I had just agreed to an episiotomy so I thought that the burning pain I got when he came through was my mw doing that but actually it was a minor tear inside- it was brief though and one more push later I had a baby in my arms- yippee!

To be honest I found the piles I was left with afterwards and the pain in my nipples when I tried to breastfeed for the first week (ended up with mastitus and then gave up as my milk didn't come in for 8 days) was much worse than the labour. I'd do the labour tomorrow (if I got another babe!) but piles- no thank you! I think some pain might be higher on the pain scale but actually easier to bear than other pain because of where it is if that makes sense? Also during labour you have got painkilling stuff about to help and it's a pain that you know will finish

Hope that doesn't scare- I had no end of people scaring me beforehand so I know what it's like
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[Minxy]

It's almost the thought of the pain that is worse than enduring it.

I worried for weeks before and thinking about it afterwards still upsets me a bit but when you're THERE, in the MOMENT, you're just so focused on concentrating and getting it over and done with, although it IS intensely painful and scary (no drug will take that fear away!) you WILL cope, because your body just takes over!

I was induced and would describe the early pains as really bad period-type cramps, developing into that doubling-over wind type pain

Good Luck to all preggers mums. Just remember, every single person you see today is a result of that experience

 

[Riley's Mommy]

im not sure if that comforted me or scared me lol.

the thing thats scared me the most at the moment is a magazine ive got. there is a pic of the baby being taken out. and the size of the womans bits scared the life out of me tbh

iim looking forward to the birth. but will be holding onto the gas and air the whole time lol

 

[cassi]

Very very bad period pains, undescribable...mine were coming on top of eachother very very strong because i was induced but i wasnt dilating still!



i personally think i would of been in less pain post labour if i had had a ceasarean!!! my whole pelvic floor just callapsed and i was in agony and couldnt walk or move much for days....i got a womb infection, im still painfull down below sometimes because my pelvic floor still hasnt recovered and i cut quite deep all the way across my labia it was long, deep and wide and the only way i could go to the loo was sitting in the bath and still i cried in agony.