Is giving birth really *that* painful????

Question

I mean, come on, that's what that area is built for, right?????

Answer 1

Jack... imagine pushing a pot roast through a Fruit Loop. Sure, that Fruit Loop dilates to about the circumference of an orange, but again, the pot roast stays the same size.

In other words.... "yes, it is".

Answer 2

I get annoyed when my brothers tell me it's going to hurt like hell. One, how the heck can they know by just looking at their wives, it's not like they're pushing the baby out, and second, do I really need to be reminded of the pain all the time? Yes I know it will hurt, but from what I hear it only hurts in the moment, and then afterward it just goes away. That's why I think some people will tell you that it's not that bad, because they forget the pain and only care about the new bundle of joy they had. I want to go natural too, but I'm keeping my options open. I'll bare the pain until I can no longer handle it, but if it gets too bad for me then I'll ask for epidural.

Answer 3

I had a guy tell me once that passing a kidney stone was the most painful thing ever. Having a baby is passing something 100 times the size of a kidney stone through a space that is pretty much the same size.

You have obviously never seen a woman give birth up close, because you would realize that it hurts worse than it looks (and it's not a pleasant site)

Answer 4

well the fact that a woman's cervix (in which a large amount of nerves are located) is stretching and opening from the size of a pin head to the size of the average palm width, should tell you that it is quite pain full. Not to mention that an internal organ is going through spasms. Why don't you try stretching out your urethra to the size of a watermelon, while at the same time having your prostrate gland shocked so that it seizes every frew minutes, just for comparison.


EDIT: BTW Jacky, you're on a role tonight. LOL

Answer 5

Oh...how I wish that someone would invent a reality simulator, where a guy can put a helmet on his head and see and feel and "experience" childbirth. In real time. (That means, he would have to be in labor for 48 1/2 hours like I was.) Then, after living a few months with your uterus stretched out to about 10 times it's natural size, and shoving all your organs into places they're not meant to be (stomach, liver, etc. all up in the ribcage) You pelvic opening is stretched to the point of there being small fractures on the pelvis. (Archaelogists use these fractures on mummy pelvic bones to help determine how many children the women had.) And yes, this hurts.

Think of it like this. You have a fairly large human being living INSIDE of your body. He HAS to come out. How are you going to get him out??? You have to physically SQUEEZE him out through an opening no wider than quarter. Things are ripping and tearing open all over the place. Havoc is being wreaked on your insides.

I'd give men 15 minutes of mild early-stage contractions before they run out crying and are laid up in bed for a week.

Answer 6

Because you're a guy and don't have periods, then I'm gonna have to explain it another way (labour = the worst period pain ever)

Imagine that you haven't taken a crap for a month. You're bunged up, and worst of all, you have the mother of all haemorrhoids. Anyway, childbirth is like crapping out that massive turd, only they give you drugs to help you deal with it.

And pysically yes, it's built for it, but the contractions are freaking agony. I tell you what, try stuffing an umbrella down your jap's eye and tell me how it feels...

Answer 7

Well imagine something about the size of watermelon coming out of about something the size of a strawberry...Yes it is very painful, especially for those who give birth without any pain medicine. And most of the time they have to cut the gueche (i dont know if I spelled it right, and i think thats what its called) but the thing that separates your genitals from your rectom. And yes it is painful.

Answer 8

I was a chicken and opted for a spinal block where you are numb from the waist down. The best part was watching the births overhead in a mirror.
My pain and contractions ( before I got to the hospital ) were in my lower back and down my legs.
But the actual being pregnant was the most wonderful experience. I never felt better and glowed with health.
BTW.... getting hit hard in the breasts I would say is equal to men getting hit in their groin. They both bring you to your knees!

Answer 9

Well consider this , women sometimes die while giving birth!
Does that sound like it doesn't hurt to you...
Why don't you ask someone close to you , I'm sure they would tell you......
Yes the pain is excruciating....it racks your whole body from head to toe...in waves that seem to never end......
And I agree with the majority why don't you piss a bowling ball and we'll talk....lol....
"That's what the 'area' is built for ...lol...okay genuis.....

Answer 10

Man, talk about butting heads tonight!

Hmm, let's see, I cut my stomach cut open, my stomach was stapled, a baby fighting to get out of me, worse than the worst of menstrual pain.

I can love you unconditionally, but that don't mean I have to accept your bullsmack remarks as correct!

It's even far more painful than if some guy randomly ram his private part up your reary rear super hard!

Answer 11

ok giving birth is probably the same pain to the equivalent of a man being kicked, really hard, in the groin and the pain going on for several hours!!!!!!!!! how about you try giving birth mr smarty pants! lol

my aunty pushed a ten pound out naturally NO drugs at all!!!! she is still sore and the baby is like six weeks old :)