a question about giving birth for the ladies from a man. i saw a program on discovery, it was the 1st time i?

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saw a real birth, and judging by the noises the lady was making it is extremely painful. i spose my question is, are their any experiences in life u, or descriptions u can use, to help men understand what contractions/labour, and crowning feel like? and can u feel the baby as it moves down the birth canal? what does that feel like? thanks

Answer 1

Take a big watermellon and shove it through your penis.

Answer 2

Labor is pretty intense--I did the whole birth without any drugs. I don't remember feeling the baby actually moving down the birth canal, but I know that she was--I couldn't do anything to stop it from happening.
Someone once told me that the pain of giving birth was a lot like pulling your lower lip up over your head. I can definitely understand where that idea came from.
At the same time, the thing that I did not anticipate was the extreme burning sensation that I felt while I was pushing. I later found out that the burning was in fact, my skin tearing apart.

Hopefully this answers your questions. Good luck!

Answer 3

Being that I have had two. The feeling itself is one of pressure. You don't really sense the individual parts moving but the overall size of the baby you can tell is there. The crowning process that a woman goes through basically is the feeling if a severe burning sensation in a circle type pattern, though when your in the moment it feels like it lasts a lifetime but in actual time its one for a bit.
To assimilate the feeling to something a man could understand.. remember scraping your knee as a kid and that burning feeling you felt just after it was done and ur looking at it, that with the stretching of a rubber band...intertwine the two and u have the one feeling. mm the movement is almost like when u do number 2...lol but a really big one...lol pressure movement, take a plastic bag of wet sand, hold it up and let it fall out one end...that would somewhat assimilate the weight feeling moving downward

Answer 4

think about a time when you have been really really constipated, all the discomfort, the cramping, the sweats and the pressure of it just sitting there waiting to come out. now imagine as you are pushing it out, it is the size of a bowling ball. that my friend is the best description contractions, and labor. moving down the birth canal is all part of that. i gave birth natural, absolutely no meds what so ever, no epidural, no pain killers, but i can tell you,when that baby comes out it was the best feeling i have ever experienced in my life.

Answer 5

Let me see if I can explain it, in a way that a man could really understand it.
It's like if you (a male) twisted his nut sac and one of them went inside of you, and you could feel it as it moved.
Does that help any?
Yes you can feel the baby as it comes down the canal, I did, she is 20 years-old I only gave birth one time in my life but. I will not lie to you the only difference in the pain I just described to you is that once you see that adorable little face and those tiny little fingers and hear those big healthy lungs you know that you would do it all over again, there's the difference.
It's wonderful & unforgetable

Answer 6

Have you ever gone running? Have you ran so far and so fast you needed to stop but couldnt? Fealt like you were going to throw up, couldnt breath, had pains in your stomach, back and leggs? But you cant just stop.. your heart is beating so fast it could pop out of your chest....Its all happing and your just sitting there! Scary hugh?

Add all that with the feeling of extrem, major constipation and somone kindly ripping out your insides through your butt ( I say 'butt' because your a man)... multiply it by 100.

That is how it feels.

But the whole time you know that there has to be an end, sometime you are going to have the most beautiful thing you have ever seen and that wonderful little baby is all yours.

Answer 7

The contractions feel like really bad diarreha cramps, but worse!!! Crowning feels like your going to be ripped in 2. I have heard that a kidney stone is the closest a man can come to childbirth pain. Having also had one of those, I would say it is close.

Answer 8

well the head felt like i was pushing out a bowling ball and it burnt like hell. the body felt like a fish swimming through a small hole. i had an epidural but i still felt felt it for some reason. the contraction is your body pushing the baby down through your birth canal obviously ur body can't push on its own so us women have to push, so yeah u do kinda feel the baby moving down.

Answer 9

contractions-hard pains that take your breath away
crowing is the worst-have someone put both their hands around your wrist and then tell them to twist the skin in the opposite directions-you feel a searing burning pain.
you don't necessarily feel the baby's head moving down the canal.

Answer 10

Contractions are unbelievably painful. On top of that, labor can last forever. I was in labor with my first child 22 hours. Then, your giving birth, you have to push with everything in you. Your in pain and pushing forever. Its all ALOT of pain. You finally have the child, and then you go thru 18 years of raising them. I really don't know which is worse. LOL

Answer 11

In labor...........it feels like you are taking a large rubber band and pulling it as far as you can go. As you get ready for the birth. Yes you can feel everything even when you have an epidural............hopefully it doesn't wear off. Oh, where is the recking ball that is hitting your insides everytime there is a contraction.
AND NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY........................AND YOU WANT TO HAVE SEX RIGHT AFTER THE BABY IS BORN........................FORGET IT!!!!!.