My partner has just asked me what the pain of labour is like. How do I describe it to him?

Question

I'm stumped.

WALID, just go back to sleep. Why would my partner ask me what labour is like if I hadn't experienced it?

Answer 1

Like someone tying your insides in knots before jumping all over them. And then pulling those knots really tight. And then letting go. And pulling them tighter. And letting go. And anticipating the next time it happens.... for hours on end. Thats as close as I can get for contractions.

For delivery, get him to use his fingers to stretch his lips (like you used to as a kid, when you tried to say 'bucket' and it was funny). And then stretch some more, and imagine stretching it so far it tears. Oh, and you could apply pressure for realism. There, now get him to imagine that feeling in one of the most sensitive parts of his anatomy.

Has he got it yet?!?

Answer 2

I told my husband it was like a extreme cramp over my back and belly and it was as intensence as it gets but strangely between contractions I had no pain. Second time round was back to back so became indiscribable. I found it hard to explain giving birth is an easier pain to explain. I told him look at the baby, you've seen where it came from, do the maths for yourself.
As men don't have periods or any point of reference I don't think you can discibe it.

Answer 3

Tell him its the most painful and primitive experience ever. Its like your insides are being pulled and tugged over and over again, the pain is unbelievable and comes in constant waves that take your breath away. When the baby is on its way out it feels like you need a big p o o. When the baby is about to come out of your vagina its like having your mouth stretched and stretched til its stings and feels as though it will rip - getting the picture yet?!

Answer 4

The best description I have heard is its either like passing a kidney stone the size of a marble, or crap a 16 lb bowling ball. I also heard a comedian say, take your lower lip and try to pull it up over your face.

Either way, labor does hurt.

Answer 5

Well do as some women in labour do in the Far East when they are having contractions.........tie string round is private parts and tug very hard.......seemingly the pain is very similar to labour .Cant remember where i read this .

Answer 6

You could never explain it to anybody male or female, the only way they will ever no is to give birth. It is a very painful experience but once you have given birth you forget the pain, it just disappears.

Answer 7

try one of the following

imagine sh*tting a ten pin bowling ball whilst p*ssing razor blades

imagine pulling your 4skin over your head like a jumper

imagine p*ssing a pineapple and cr@pping a pumpkin at the same time

like having a traffic cone forced up your bottom whilst having a full bladder and not being able to pee

Answer 8

it is indescribable! no man would experience anyhting like that! population would have died out years ago if it was left to men cause they are wimps !although my mum said when she had a kidney stone that was way worse than labor and she has had 4 children and then i thought maybe it hurt me cause she didnt have the excitement there of having a baby at the end of it xx

Answer 9

it's an intense stretching and clenching pain, like the pain of very bad diarrhoea. But afterwards its soon forgotten. Which is why we are willing to go through it again the next time we give birth.

Answer 10

Tell him that from a whole the size of a lime has to come out a head the size of a melon.