Mothers. . .

[beastiegirrl101]

. . .can you describe to the best of your ability what its like to give birth? Everyone says you don’t know pain till you have a baby, but then they place the baby in your arms and it all melts away. Is it really that bad? I'd love to hear all your labor stories...good AND bad.

[befsquire]

are you pregnant? or just trying to decide whether you want children one day?

with my son, i had no health issues whatsoever, and when i went into labor, it did hurt, but it never got to the intense point because i was able to have an epidural. with my daughter, i was borderline diabetic (gestational diabetes) and i had pregnancy induced high blood pressure. this made me go into labor early. at first i thought it was false labor, because it was 3 weeks early. but then it got really painful really quick. so we went to the hospital, and i was too far along to get to have an epidural. luckily i wasn't in labor long, because by the time they got some drugs into me to "take the edge off," she was born and then they took effect.

i think someone could have ripped off my arm at that point, and maybe it might have been a slight nuisance.

but like anything else, once the pain is gone, you're almost euphoric. and the pain is all about your body getting the baby out, so all the extremely painful cramping is gone once the baby is born. so, your pain is gone and then they give you this little baby, and you're like "holy shit, i made a person! i can't even draw stick figures, and i made that?"

they're worth any amount of pain you have to go through, and it's something that you just endure for the reward you're given.

[beastiegirrl101]

so, your pain is gone and then they give you this little baby, and you're like "holy shit, i made a person! i can't even draw stick figures, and i made that?".


I love that. ha.

No I am not pregnant, a really close friend of mine had a baby two days ago and it's been such a long time that I was at a hospital for a good reason that it was extremely refreshing. It all facinates / freaks me out...but I love hearing about it and different mothers experiences.

[befsquire]

congrats to your friend! is this her first baby?

you're absolutely right -- i've sorta forgotten that hospitals can be a happy place that you're glad to go to.

you know, a great benefit of having babies is the free food your friends and family drop off. it's nice to not have to think about going to the store to pick up ingredients that you then have to cook and clean up after.

[Randetica]

i always switch channels when a see a birth on tv, i dont really mind seeing the baby getting squeezed out but the yelling of the mother is kinda scary when you know you have to go through that some day..


well yeah, fill me up with drugs.. NOW!

[cosmo105]

i'm terrified of childbirth. :(

[Bob]

i'm terrified of childbirth. :(

you know cosmo...a child is born in this country every 30 seconds...think about that when you go to bed tonight

[cosmo105]

no! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[ericlee]

my mom thought she was giving birth to a demon spawn with me cause I was born with a mustache and a Super Nova.

[TurdBerglar]

are you pregnant? or just trying to decide whether you want children one day?

with my son, i had no health issues whatsoever, and when i went into labor, it did hurt, but it never got to the intense point because i was able to have an epidural. with my daughter, i was borderline diabetic (gestational diabetes) and i had pregnancy induced high blood pressure. this made me go into labor early. at first i thought it was false labor, because it was 3 weeks early. but then it got really painful really quick. so we went to the hospital, and i was too far along to get to have an epidural. luckily i wasn't in labor long, because by the time they got some drugs into me to "take the edge off," she was born and then they took effect.

i think someone could have ripped off my arm at that point, and maybe it might have been a slight nuisance.

but like anything else, once the pain is gone, you're almost euphoric. and the pain is all about your body getting the baby out, so all the extremely painful cramping is gone once the baby is born. so, your pain is gone and then they give you this little baby, and you're like "holy shit, i made a person! i can't even draw stick figures, and i made that?"

they're worth any amount of pain you have to go through, and it's something that you just endure for the reward you're given.

sounds like taking a massive shit except i don't hold my shit afterwards. i just flush it down the toilet. they should start flushing babies down the toilet.

[insertnamehere]

i too am horrified of childbirth. i find it hard to believe that the joy of a new baby outweighs the pain of poppin it out. then again, kids in general kinda weird me out, i dont like to talk to children, and i dont like to hold/be around babies, so im not one of those girls thats all about having kids one day. i figure eventually i'll have to cause most people want them and if i marry some guy that wants kids and i want the guy to not divorce me i'll have to have his kids, but really i dont look foward to it.

having doggies takes care of all of my motherly instincts.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

i always switch channels when a see a birth on tv, i dont really mind seeing the baby getting squeezed out but the yelling of the mother is kinda scary when you know you have to go through that some day..


When i was pregnant I obsessively watched those programmes ever day.

With Ava I had my labour induced a week after my due date as she was a big baby (she weighed in at 9lbs 14)

Yes labour hurts...like hell but i was surprised at how calm i was. I mean normally if i get a splinter in my finger i'm screaming trying to get it out. Drugs helped...Entonox (gas & air) could be the most fantastic discovery, ever. I sucked that stuff down like a woman posessed.
My labour lasted 16 hours but the actual 'pushing' the baby out only took half an hour.
As soon as the baby is out the pain just disappears, you feel totally knackered, starving hungry, so proud and just bursting with love for this little human being you created.

Childbirth is a little bit scary, but it can't be that bad or we wouldn't keep doing it!

[Randetica]

When i was pregnant I obsessively watched those programmes ever day.

wow you must hate yourself!

[Medellia]

i always switch channels when a see a birth on tv, i dont really mind seeing the baby getting squeezed out but the yelling of the mother is kinda scary when you know you have to go through that some day..


well yeah, fill me up with drugs.. NOW!
I was a silent birth. Not the creepy Scientology kind, my mom just didn't scream. And the doctors were very grateful for that.

[befsquire]

they should start flushing babies down the toilet.
they tend to clog the pipes. that's why all the prom moms just put them in the garbage.

[mikizee]

I'm just a prom night dumpster babyyy,
I got no Mom or Dad.
Prom night dumpster babyyy,
My story isn't long but boy its awfully sad. 'bombombombombom!'

And though I came from a hole, 'And though he came from a hole'
I'm singin right from the soul, 'He's singin right from the soul!'
My fanny needs a blanket,
And somebody to spank it,
I miss my Mom, 'But she's at the prom!'

So I'm a prom night dumpster baby,
prom night dumpster baby, 'bombombombombombombom!!'
And I'm takin a stroll! 'Hes takin a stroll!'
repeat 5x.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

wow you must hate yourself!

Errr....no. :confused:

It's called preparation. It is a good idea to familiarise yourself with the actual birthing process and the hospital surroundings.

I suspect you would be in for a shock if you had never seen a pair of forceps and they whipped them out.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

I was a silent birth. Not the creepy Scientology kind, my mom just didn't scream. And the doctors were very grateful for that.

I didn't scream either. You have to put all your energy into getting that baby out. Try bearing down and screaming at the same time. It's impossible.

[Randetica]

Errr....no. :confused:

It's called preparation. It is a good idea to familiarise yourself with the actual birthing process and the hospital surroundings.

I suspect you would be in for a shock if you had never seen a pair of forceps and they whipped them out.

ah boring

it would be funnier if you watched that shit then turned around to see yourself in the mirror, point to yourself and be like this is gonna happen to you, you fucking bitch! you know you fucking want it! you know you fucking deserve it! so fucking bring it you fucking bitch!

damn i cant wait to get preggies!

[kaiser soze]

Anyone know about water birthing or squatting?

weird but maybe better alternatives

[Randetica]

what about shitting while birthing?

at a normal birth i would hope that they clean it off soon but shitting in the water must be worse

like it swims there on the surface, for everyone to see, the nurse tries to fish it but cant catch it



i shouldnt post when im bored, im curious though

[venusvenus123]

birth is fucking painful, obviously, but not so painful i'd not have cared if someone removed my arm. i had gas and air and shouted at people, well that was more towards the end. i can't remember the pain, just the lack of being able to have a rest from it all. it is exhausting.

really, the birth is the easy bit... it's over in a day (more or less). it's all the stuff that comes afterwards which is difficult.

[b i o n i c]

sounds like taking a massive shit except i don't hold my shit afterwards. i just flush it down the toilet. they should start flushing babies down the toilet.


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. oh lord

[jabumbo]

for the last time, its not my child!

[insertnamehere]

anyone had any experiences with, um... i forget what its called, they make a cut in your vag hole so that if it rips, it rips along a clean cut instead of all jagged. i read up on it after i saw something about it on tv once, and it sounded like its actually a horrible idea, but apparently most american doctors just do it. but apparently the natural tears, even though they are jagged, tend to be smaller and less problematic and the kind where they cut you can tear to your bum hole.

i think i dont want any pre-birth cut thingys

[TurdBerglar]

shit! im eating here!

[ms.peachy]

inh I believe you are thinking of an episiotomy. They do those less and less these days I'm told; apparently natural tearing heals better.

I went to my prenatal yoga faithfully every week when I was pregnant, practiced at home, planned with my midwife to have a waterbirth, I had acupuncture to (supposedly) bring on gentle contractions and all this stuff in anticipation of having a really groovy water birth with candles and nice music and no drugs and all of that lovely shit. Well, that was the dream.

As it happened, Mattie didn't want to come out, so when I was 2 weeks overdue I was induced. Now the thing is, when labour is induced, it hits pretty hard, like getting hit by a train - none of this gentle 'early labour' business, where you can sort of ease into the pain with a TENS unit and some nice gas and air. Oh no. I was like, HOLY FUCKING SHIT, GIVE ME DRUGS NOW. But, they wouldn't give me any pethidine because the baby's heart rate was dipping each time there was a contraction, and as it was 5 am there was only 1 anaesthetist on duty, and he was in emergency surgery. So there was a period of a few hours where I was just sort of drifting through contractions, and it REALLY REALLY REALLY hurt, but basically I'd breathe and count through it. I knew that once I got to 15, it would start to recede.

Eventually I did get an epidural, but - horror of horrors! - it only worked for half my body. So the right side was numb, but I could still feel everything on the left. So I had to just deal with that for another couple of hours, and then the anaesthetist came back and 're-sited' the epidural. Which then worked everywhere except my left butt cheek, so every time I had a contraction, it was like getting stabbed in the ass. But that was as good as it was gonna get, so we had to go with it.

And can I say,it seemed like every hour there was someone new stopping by to give me a "VE" - vaginal exam. I think there must have been a sign outside inviting people to come in an put their hand up my snatch.

Around 7 or so mr.peachy was starvign and still there was no baby, so he went off to get something to eat, and like 5 minutes after he left the room suddenly I was like "I gotta push, NOW!" My midwife was like "OK not yet". I was like "No I gotta push!" and she's like "No, no yet". So I managed to hold on until mr.p came back and then, I dunno how to explain it, it was like something really nice was happening. I mean it was still painful and all, but the scene with the three of us there, it felt right. I was pushing, mr.p was coaching me along, the midwife was doing her thing, and it was ok, even though it was sitll painful, something about the finally being able to push was very much a relief.

But, there was a problem, Mattie wasn't coming out, because the cord was around her neck, so I'd push and she'd come down but not out and then go back up in! So suddenly the room was full of people and I got a little bit scared at this huge rush of activity, as it had been so quiet and intimate just a moment before, and I remember I saw the doctor putting together a giant set of salad tongs and he was telling me that he was going to have to use them to deilver the baby and I was just like "uh... ok..."

And then suddenly, the midwife said "here's your baby!" and there was a pinkish little human with squinty eyes on my stomach and I remember thinking 'Who are you?'

I didn't feel a huge rush of 'love' per se in that instant as some people say they do, it more like complete amazment, that this baby that I was looking at
had somehow been inside of me and was now outside of me and moving and making noise and stuff. It was a pretty cool feeling, but I was definitely still rather in shock!

After a moment or so the midwives took her off to get weighed and measured and all that, and the doctor said something about how they were going to give me an injection to help deliver the afterbirth, and I asked him "How long will that take?" and he said "Oh, anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour" and mr.peachy says that I sat bolt upright (inasmuch as I could, anyway) and yelled "AN HOUR! ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME?!" Because I'd already been through close to 18 hours and the baby was now out, how could it be another HOUR? But ultimately actually it did come out straight away, anyway.

And then I had to get the stitches, because I'd torn a bit apparently, but I tell you what I have NO memory of the tearing, and they gave me a local anaesthetic for the stitches, so that wasn't such a big deal.

So, yeah, overall, it hurt like hell. But, yeah, it was worth it. It would have been great if the groovy five-hour candles-and-soft-music water-birth had worked out though. Alas, such was not my fate.

[Randetica]

great, im so looking forward to it :(
but seems like the bbmbers have the best babies ever made so ill give it a try!


i heard quite a few couples got divorced cause the guy looked right into her peep hole and saw the baby getting squeezed out

the whole sex life was just ruined afterwards


wonder if it's true

[fucktopgirl]

. . .can you describe to the best of your ability what its like to give birth? Everyone says you don’t know pain till you have a baby, but then they place the baby in your arms and it all melts away. Is it really that bad? I'd love to hear all your labor stories...good AND bad.

Alix was born with a c-section because she did not wanted to get out, she was upside down, if a midwife would have been present, thing maybe would have been different because she, the midwife, would have been able to change the position of the baby in my belly (my mom midwife did it).

So my labor was with an '' epidural'' so i did not feel anything, not true, i felt the water broke but that pretty much it, then after they open myself with a cutter maybe an exacto ( you know thoses knife that you can manage the lenght ).... then they pulled out Alix and they put her on my upper chest, on my breast..she was awesome.

So i don't really know what his to give birth , fully, but i know what it is to be a mom.