I was watching Scrubs the other day and Zach Braff's character (who plays a doctor/nurse or something like that) said that childbirth is over-romanticized. The way he described it, how some women defecate and vomit while in labor really changed my perspective on child birth. Is that common? To those that have given birth, would you agree that childbirth is over-romanticized?
2007-03-04 19:02:19 · 11 answers · asked by the_sweet_things 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
The only thing "cute" about the giving birth is the baby!! Everything else is for the birds!!
2007-03-04 21:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by Oops! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So maybe I was incredibly lucky but my experience of childbirth was fantastic. I gave birth to my beautiful daughter at home less than four hours after the midwife arrived and i can honestly say that the pain was fine (no pain relief needed) and I didn't vomit etc. In fact, just hours after giving birth I was considering the next child! I get really fed up of the childbirth horror stories as it's a perfectly natural thing that women have been doing for centuries! My partner was present at the birth and wouldn't have missed it for the world. No, childbirth is not over romanticized, it is a wonderful fullfilling experience and I can't wait to do it again!
2007-03-04 21:36:13 · answer #2 · answered by gidge 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What is romatic about passing a cantalope sized head out your ****? I am sorry but I felt so unromatic during the whole process, there was no bonding feeling with my husband, no secret exchange of loving looks, nothing like that. I am sorry but if someone thinks that childbirt is romantic they are so full of crap it isn't even funny. Yes childbirth can have defecation (although the body does attempt to clean itself out before the big moment) and if the pain is bad enough a woman might vomit (or her spouse or anyone else there for the big moment), there is alot of yelling or screaming, alot of grunting and groaning. No childbirth isn't romantic and anyone who has that notion needs to watch a video of a child being born. There may be excitement in the room but it isn't something that is romantic. Just like the process of child birth the result of it (baby) alot of times isn't what people have expected either. Most first time parents don't expect to see a cone headed kid covered in white vernex and a bit of blood with wrinkles all over it. Contrary to what television puts out there most new borns are not these cherub-like creatures that are totally perfect and radiant. They don't look like cupid. Of course this is just my humble opinion. I thought my little girl was beautiful (still do) but that didn't change the fact that she was covered in goo and looking less than enthused about the journey down the birth canal.
2007-03-04 19:46:19 · answer #3 · answered by MOMMY585 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only people who would say child-birth is romantic are men. Ask any woman who has given birth and they will tell you it ain't nothing romantic about it. Sometimes, they give you an enema and you spend hours in the bathroom pooping or if you have no enema and have natural child-birth, you probably will poop during birth. Not many women vomit, but you get shaved (some doctors do and some don't) all over and you get a catheter stuck up your urethra at some point and oh boy that is so romantic. You have needles stuck in all kinds of places, in your arms, hands, spine and taped to you somewhere. Then you push and sweat and scream until you push an enormous head out of your vagina or you lay on your back and watch a doctor cut your stomach open and pull a bloody infant out and then spend hours sewing you back up while you are awake. And if you are really lucky, maybe the doctor will have to cut you from your vaginal opening to your butt hole for the baby to get out and then he sews that back up and it hurts like a mother for a few weeks, then it just itches like the worst hives ever. Yep, child-birth is so very romantic, everyone should have to do it, especially men.
2007-03-04 19:17:13 · answer #4 · answered by nesmith52 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is NOTHING romantic about giving birth.....the pain is like nothing you have EVER experienced & your diginity goes out the window...Imagine being naked with your legs spread open in front of people you don't even know? I never actually passed a motion but it feels like you are going to....its just like being totally out of control & it annoys me that women should look after each other and tell each other what it is REALLY like - its almost like its a 'secret society' when its time to enter the birthing suite....if I had time to write a book about the ugly side of childbirth I would...it should be done...I wouldn't swap my children for all the money under the sun but for women, its an amazing bond that you can't describe. The hard work of carrying that child for 9 months and then the even harder work of childbirth binds you to them. Its ..undescribable....
2007-03-04 19:16:34 · answer #5 · answered by babyblues_752001 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think childbirth is over romanticized before it happens but once it happens or its under process you'll know it wasn't as good as it sounded. I fanticized my childbirth all the nine months. I was scared to death before it happened and it was even worse. But I would do it all over again if I had to. I love my baby to pieces and this for her was nothing. But it sure is not romantic. I forgot romace so much that didn't have sex for 5 months after she was born. ha ha ha.
2007-03-04 21:29:50 · answer #6 · answered by Shanu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree its not quite the romantic setting though, in some ways can be a loving bonding moment.
My brother, his wife and her mother were all in the ward while having her first child. They took turns rubbing her back, wiping her brow, holding her hand and when baby finally came out, it was laid on mums chest, all 3 of them in tears at the oare of the moment. Quite a bonding experience for the 3 of them
2007-03-04 22:14:37 · answer #7 · answered by Kristy B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LoL Cool question! - yeah I guess it is a bit.... no one wants to really dwell on all the yucky stuff that happens during childbirth - some squeemish people might even be completly turned off the idea!
2007-03-04 22:41:35 · answer #8 · answered by karma_au_1984 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 05:27:54 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had my child in a pool. I did not vomit, but I did leave a little gift for the cleaners.
Childbirth is exhausting and painfull, but I would do it all again.
2007-03-04 19:09:46 · answer #10 · answered by Lolipop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋