Mothers; How much does having a baby hurt?

Question

If u can explain in it words...

Answer 1

IF you mean to actually give birth to a baby...

1. cramping and tightening of the belly, a little sharper at the bottom of the belly

2. tightening becomes harder and the pain feels sharper as labor progresses. It comes and goes every 15 min or so.

3. Tightning becomes harder, pain feels sharper, but now the pain is coming every few min. This is where is becomes very difficult... the time inbetween those contracts are shorter and shorter, not allowing you time to take a break from the pain.

4. This continues and you are feeling the pain in your lower back too. every couple of minutes extruciating pain that lasts for about an entire minute.

5. NOw you are starting to feel pressure in your vagina, like your bones are stretching.

6. You have the unbearable urge to push it out of you. INfact the feeling of pushing is the only thing that makes the pain feel like its going away.

7. You push and push, and then your feel your vaginal wall stretching and burning a bit as the head comes out.

8. One final push the shoulders come out, like a huge expel of relief.

9. The pain suddenly stops except for some minor contractions that are virtually painless.
10. YOu see your baby, and the pain.... meant absolutely nothing.

Pain in childbirth is the means to a beautiful end result.
WELL WORTH IT!

Answer 2

It's different for every woman, but I agree with 1of the other responses.In my case, I felt I had to go diarrhea bad!in my stomach but nothing comes out. Towards the end, the contractions come 1 after another and you feel you have no time to recover from the last 1 before another and makes you tense,but that's when the feeling of wanting to pushing the baby out comes,and your body will just start to do it involuntarily sometimes. Lucky me, I had no pain down there, but I had an episiotomy(they cut me more open but I did not feel,(i think they put something to numb it) so my baby felt like he just slid out. The breathing exercises really does help for the pain. I tried to be as calm and relaxed as possible because I did not want any complications since I knew the baby was still feeling everything I was and I did not want our blood pressure to go up too high.I had no epideril. I cried a little and moaned a little but never yelled. It helps to have your head rubbed,your feet massaged, your hands too,a cold cloth on your forehead, eat ice chips, and do the brething when you are having contractions,and remember it will end and you will finally get to meet your baby and see who they look like, you will be so happy and relieved. Good luck!

Answer 3

Well, it depends on how you plane to have the baby. With the help of medicine or with out the help of medicine.
and then there's how long you have to wait until they can give you the medicine until that time just think how much it hurts when you have cramps it would be about ten times the pain if not more and even if you move chances are it's going to hurt and you can sometimes get to where you don't want anyone around you or near you.

Other than that it all depends on the mom and how big the baby is on how much pain your looking at having.

Answer 4

There are no words sufficient enough to explain the horrific pain of child birth!! Let's say someone got a pair of pliers and took a portion of your arm skin in the grips and they squeezed, pulled, twisted, jerked and continuously grinded it as hard as possible. That might give you some idea of how much it hurts but it wouldn't quite touch the true horrible agony of it. Some women lie and say "oh it's a beautiful thing" they are nuts!! That's one of the absolute worse pains possible. Next is being burned alive and that pales in comparison to child birth! If you're having a baby ask your doctor for body numbing drugs!!! It's the only thing that will curb the pain!!!

Answer 5

It feels like you have to poop out all your insides at once. I know this sounds kinda silly, but try to imagine it the next time you go potty. The contractions from about 7centimeters to 10 centimeters are the worse. I actually wanted someone to start ripping my hair out so I could concentrate on THAT pain instead of the ones I was having inside. Its kind of a scary kind of pain, if your not well prepared, because you cannot get away from it.
After I could push, though, it actually felt GOOD. Yeah, go figure. Pushing is awesome..... just tiresome though.

It's all worth it in the end!! I would go through it again and again for my baby girl and all my future children.

Answer 6

Well, I'm not sure there are words to describe it, but one word that does come to mind is 'forgettable'.
Seriously, as soon as I held my baby, I thought 'I could do that again, but then the local anaesthetic from the stitches wore off and I reconsidered.

It is not like any other pain you will ever encounter because it is a productive natural pain, which in hindsight, isn't that bad, but when I was in labour, I remember calling my mom stupid for doing it three times- and it was the one and only time I could get away with doing that!

Answer 7

I consider myself lucky. I have a high threshold for pain. I was in labor for 19 hours, and for me the pain was like really bad menstrual cramps. To be honest, the pain was a whole lot worse when I miscarried in 2005. The pressure from pushing and delivery was...how can I put this...WOW! As soon as the babies shoulders get through and she slithers the rest of the way out, all of the pain just completely disappears....

Answer 8

Ditto "Dawn H"'s answer; but no one tells you about the pain AFTER the birth...

You still experience contractions hours after the birth as your uteris contracts back into the size it was before baby (breastfeeding helps the pain/distracts you). I also injured my tailbone during the birth from the pressure of pushing, and couldn't sit straight for months afterwards.

But as they say, it's all worth it when you see what you've created, and even though you may remember all the details of the birth, your mind has a funny way of blocking the physical memory of the pain - you just "remember" that it hurt!

Answer 9

My husband wanted to know how it felt to me..
And the best way I can explain it is that it feels like you have diarea when you go into labor..your stomach hurts, but with diarea you can just go to the bathroom..(if you have pain during your periods then make that X 5 at least!)
As far as the rest of it goes I was soooo numbed up when I was like 7-8cm so past that I did not feel a thing..

Answer 10

I've had 2 kids & i remember it hurting a lot, but its nothing u wont be able to handle, i was in labour for 23 hours with my first child & i didnt start getting the real bad pains until about 3 hours b4 he was actually born (my second child i delivered within 5 hours), you will have pain medication if u need it or want it, i used the pain meds in the last hours, but got terribly sick from it, so i gave birth to my second child without the meds, but its all worthwhile in the end. best wishes & good luck.