realistically how sore is labour?

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first time mummy to be!
expecting a little pink bundle
young mum so wondering realistically how sore it will be and gas anyone not been in too much pain?
hoping for a natural birth using g+a only..
don't best around the bush I want to be prepared lol
thanks
xx
 
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first time mummy to be!
expecting a little pink bundle
young mum so wondering realistically how sore it will be and gas anyone not been in too much pain?
hoping for a natural birth using g+a only..
don't best around the bush I want to be prepared lol
thanks
xx

Me :) I had no pain and no pain relief :) I used Natal Hypnotherapy. A natural birth with little or no pain relief is perfectly possible, even for a first timer. HTH
 
Hmmm part of me wants to say extremely but then I managed quite a way through with no pain relief not even gas and air I hated it! Make sure you concentrate on breathing.. Sounds silly but when I had contractions I took a deep breath in and long breath out and kept doing it till they passed..

Can't comment on the pushing coz I'd had an epi by then due to exhaustion and complications.. Morphine is good too..
 
I'm not gonna lie....for me it was VERY painful....all the pain was in my bottom and back. I had an epi at the earliest opportunity. Every birth is different though and so is peoples pain threshold x
 
natal hypnotherapy? what's this lol? xx

It's the use of hypnosis as a therapy to help one achieve a comfortable and calm birthing experience. It works on the principal that fear has a lot to do with pain during childbirth - fear makes you tense, which means that the contraction hurts more, which means that you fear the next one and so on and so forth. What the Natal Hypnotherapy does is to help teach you to relax your body fully during labour and to work with your body to birth your baby rather than to fight against it. It also helps to give you the confidence to trust that your body is perfectly capable of birthing your baby. They do a 4 cd programme, book and 2 days of workshops. If you have any specific questions about it, feel free to shout me :)
 
thank you! I don't really like being in a position where I feel like I can't control my body so I don't know if I would like morphene xx
 
Its hurts! lol. Well did for me. But all i remember now that it was painfull but AMAZING!! Once i hit proper contractions i lost it, i couldnt manage the pain, was tosing and turning all over the place but once i calmed down and concentrated i was silent and just staring through my OH. It was then bearable, i would say the main thing is try to relax, breathe and concentrate!

But wow our bodies are amazing! I was pushing my baby out but midwife didnt believe i was fully dilated and told me to stop but i just couldnt, my body took over completely and it just pushed! Was quite surreal at the time as i was saying 'im so sorry, thats not me, im really not pushing!!' ha ha!

My advice is just go with it, i didnt birth plan or anything! I just went into labour and done what my body told me to do and i cant wait to do it all again!
 
Yes it's sore but it's not horrific, I am on my third pregnancy and both time managed with just gas and air. Like people say u really have to be relaxed and just breathe through the pain (I did hate when people said that to me first time round lol) I do get that everyone has different pain thresholds but I surprised myself, hope it goes well for you xx
 
I didn't find it overly painful, just uncomfortable. Only within 10 minutes of birth I had gas and air and my body was also pushing by itself. I couldn't stop it!

Just try and control the pain, keep upright and try not to panic.
 
0-5cm wasn't too bad at all, but then they broke my waters and it got pretty dang painful. I managed with no pain relief until 7cm and then needed the gas & air. It was very painful but stronger pain relief didn't enter my mind for a second, so it was manageable. :)
 
I was refused pain relief until it was too late (apart from gas and air). Despite a 38 hour labour I was only allowed pain relief half an hour before LO was born. So it hadn't taken effect. I'm not gonna lie, it was the most painful experience of my life. But I got through it. And it's worth it once you have your LO in your arms!
 
Ive had 3 labours so far, and every one of them was completely different then the one before.. So I cant say how much pain you are going to be in.. I would say like someone before me said you will benefit from the breathing if you know how to do it properly.. its like your concentrating so hard on the breathing that you almost forget about the pain..
my first labour i was young and had done no classes and was totally unprepared and was scared out of my wits, so i had the epidural..
the second i did classes learned to breath and i sailed through the labour, it was a really nice experience..
so after the secoond labour i was all prepared for a nice painless labour again for my 3rd, but my son was back to back and the pain was llike nothing i can even describe !!! still managed it without and epidural though as it was a quick labour and i didnt have time for an epidural !
im looking forward to finding out what this labour will be like :thumbup:
 
For me, it definitely hurt badly enough to want/need pain relief, but I had back labor and was induced, so I had harder contractions than would be normally felt (pitocin does that). I did okay till they broke my water and, as someone else said, that changed everything because suddenly the baby is so much heavier, and you really feel the baby's weight and pressure. I was begging for the epi by the time I got it (which was six hours after they broke my water, because nurse said it was too soon even though my dr. had said I could have it when she broke my water! :dohh:) I'll know better this time; at my hospital, you can have your epidural whenever you want without fear of it running out, so I'll be getting mine earlier this time! :thumbup: I just know myself - I don't cope well with pain and I exhausted myself last time trying to cope through pain when they refused me my epi at first... so this time I think I will be stronger during delivery if I do not have to fight through all that pain earlier. hope that helps!
 
Funny thing is you forget the pain until you become pregnant again and are in the last few months of that pregnancy. Then you get the flash backs.....lol HURTS like hell best feeling is when head is out and then baby comes out it is like heaven in those few seconds.lol everything before that Hurts.lol
 
Its so variable for everyone...

Yes it hurts but I personally found it ok...I knew that each contraction was bringing my baby closer to me and it was phenomenal. I felt in control, I felt powerful and I felt like a goddess birthing my babies...

1st time - tried a bit of G&A (hated it) ended up with a spinal in the OR to get my baby out

2nd time - Natural birth

You will be fine, you will deal with the pain. I don't like the loss of control with drugs either that was why I hated the G&A.
 
The contractions i felt from 3cm to 10cm were very intense and a pain like I had never experienced before. I took gas in air and I didn't really feel like it helped with the pain but it gave me something else to focus on ie my breathing rather than the intense contractions.
When I was about 9cm I was begging for epidural but it was too late by then and I'm glad in a way because I didn't find the pushing part that bad or painful. It was like I was putting the pain and contractions to good use to push my baby out rather than writhing around in agony.
When she was born it was the most amazing feeling in the world! I can't describe the euphoria that comes over you the first time you hold them in your arms. I would go through labour a 100 times to have my my beautiful daughter and the joy she brings and I will be going through it again next July as I'm pregnant with baby #2. You'll be fine xx
 
For me it was very sore, but had no pain relief as turned up to hospital 10cm so too late! Tried a bit of G&A for a couple of contractions but didnt like it.
 
first time mummy to be!
expecting a little pink bundle
young mum so wondering realistically how sore it will be and gas anyone not been in too much pain?
hoping for a natural birth using g+a only..
don't best around the bush I want to be prepared lol
thanks
xx
Labor is hard work. It hurts. And you can do it without pay medication. But you have to practice relaxation daily with your birth partner(s) and you need to understand what is going on in your body.
Labor pain is different from other pain because it isn't a symptom of an injury or an illness. It just means that your body is working hard and doing exactly what it is supposed to do. Labor rarely lasts more than 24 hours. It starts out fairly easy and builds gradually over time. Contractions come and go, so you can take advantage and rest, eat, drink, change positions, get in the tub or the shower. Read Ina May's Guide to Childbirth and Natural Birth the Bradley Way.
 
first time mummy to be!
expecting a little pink bundle
young mum so wondering realistically how sore it will be and gas anyone not been in too much pain?
hoping for a natural birth using g+a only..
don't best around the bush I want to be prepared lol
thanks
xx

first timer here too ... I used natal hypnotherepy and being honest I didn't really use it a lot during the labor ... a good bit of it is to do with visualisation n pretending u have a dial that can turn the pain down amongst other things n to be honest during labor u probably wont be in the mood of visualising yourself on a nice sandy beach ... it's great for a bit of chill out time during ur pregnancy ... nice n relaxing ... I could be wrong in saying this but I don't think it would be anymore effective to use than just going with your body, don't fight the pain or tense up, keep ur jaw loose, walk as much as u can it really helps, a birthing ball is great as is a tens machine n gas n air takes the edge off ... doesn't make it pain free but takes the edge off, also a lot of women are very afraid of the ring of fire ... I barely felt it as he was coming out ... try not to worry about it as pain intensifies with fear stay as relaxed as u can.
I was in labor for 22 hours ... my waters broke right at the beginning which made it very tough as soon as the contractions kicked in which was a few mins after the waters broke ... because i had no water to act like a cushion the baby pushing down would have been so much more painful for me than n if my waters had have remained intact cushioning me from some of the pain, I also stopped dilating towards the end ... I then had to get an injection of pitocin to speed up my contractions n make them stronger n also my contractions were on top of each other once i got to about 5 - 6 cm ... that's not supposed to happen until u get to 8 cm ... the most break I was getting in between contractions was about 20 seconds .. my labor was considered to be very tough but i got through it without any drugs n im a wuss lol :haha: you will be grand dont worry x
 

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