What was more painful?

[m2010]

Contractions or pushing? Contractions for me. Crowning hurt like hell though

How long was your labor? 33 hours ish
Did you have an epidural? Nope
C-section? Nope
All natural? Yup - with G&A

 

[SarahBear]

Contractions or pushing?

How long was your labor?
Did you have an epidural?
C-section?
All natural?

I was in the pushing stage for quite a while before the midwife arrived. Once she examined me and let me know that I could just let my body do whatever it needed to do (important to check that the urge to push isn't coming too soon), there really wasn't any pain other than the minor tearing that happened. It was a completely natural labor with no interventions, not even gas and air. From the time I was woken up from my contractions to the time Violet was born, was 3 hours. I suppose transition was the worst, but I never got to the point where I felt like I couldn't handle it. I was prepared for it to be a lot more difficult.

 

[RaspberryK]

Back pain, then contractions buy once I was fully dilated all I felt was pressure. Pushing didn't hurt, I didn't get the "ring of fire" the worst thing was after pains for which I was given paracetamol and it did nothing.
26 hours from first contraction to baby born, 2 cocodamol 6 hours before he was born, completely natural delivery.
Breastfeeding overall was more painful as was the awful spd pain I'd had for 6 weeks.
Xx

Ok so second labour, no back pain til near the end, contractions were painful but manageable, when my waters broke that hurt, shortly followed by pushing/panting which did feel pretty painful, no ring of fire though. My body was trying to push and the midwives were telling me not to. Anyway no tears or stiches again and no pain relief.

Xx

 

[missbabes]

Contractions or pushing? Contractions, though they were rushed by induction, no idea how it would have felt if labour had happened naturally.

How long was your labor? 16 hours total, 2 hours of pushing.
Did you have an epidural? Yes
C-section? Became EMC

 

[Shadowy Lady]

Contractions or pushing? Pushing, though mine was thankfully short (30mins)

How long was your labor? 4 hours (30mins of pushing)
Did you have an epidural? no
C-section? No
All natural? Yes