re: Labor is supposed to be painless?

Quoting Beth [due 12-25-08]:“ I've seen many labor stories where the women choose "alternative" birth plans where they "control" the ... [snip!] ... I have never been in labor lol. I don't know if it can be FULLY pain free either. I am however planning on a natural birth.”

I can bet you a thousand $$ it does. The nurse kept telling me to breath through it and I wanted to choke her until I actually tried.

When I worked hard on breathing though them I was in a lot less pain. If only I was able to get into a position I felt comfortable in. It would have been much better.

But I also am very in touch with my body and have fairly good mind control. Sadly not a lot of women do though.

before i got my epi i wasnt in that much pain( only reason i got the epi was cause of myBP), but as soon as i got the epi i slept through the whole entire thing. even when i was pushing, they had to keep waking me up to push. I really didnt feel anything, until the drugs wore off!

Painless?! 
I heard that natural childbirth can be one of the most painful experiences someone can endure.

i keep hearing how womens epis didnt work. mine wasnt working on both sides of my body but once he got it working it worked very well. i felt nothing while pushing and only a little prick when he was putting my one stitch in.

Quoting nicole & alessandra:“ I can bet you a thousand $$ it does. The nurse kept telling me to breath through it and I wanted ... [snip!] ... better. But I also am very in touch with my body and have fairly good mind control. Sadly not a lot of women do though.”

I feel like I'm really in tune with my body as well.

Idk, Maybe I'll "explore" some of these ideas and see what some mommies had to say about them. It's not like they can make it any worse considering I'm not going to have any drugs at all lol.

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Quoting vel2n:“ i keep hearing how womens epis didnt work. mine wasnt working on both sides of my body but once he got ... [snip!] ... got it working it worked very well. i felt nothing while pushing and only a little prick when he was putting my one stitch in.”

mine worked, but i could still feel some of the contractions, every so often

Quoting Sugar Mommy 2 More Weeks:“ Painless?!  I heard that natural childbirth can be one of the most painful experiences someone can endure.”

and they are correct!!!! I havent felt anything that painful before in my life.

Quoting Lacey's mommy:“ before i got my epi i wasnt in that much pain( only reason i got the epi was cause of myBP), but as soon ... [snip!] ... thing. even when i was pushing, they had to keep waking me up to push. I really didnt feel anything, until the drugs wore off!”

my BP got very high too. and i had trouble staying awake to push too. of course that was near the end and i had to push for 2 1/2 hrs 

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that's how i feel, but instead of laughing at her I wanted to find out what other people thought lol

I believe that it is possible to be fully calmed down to a point where you're relaxed so that it doesn't necessarily register that it hurts that bad, but I think regardless of that, child birth is painful. Whether you have an epidural/spinal or not, it's possible to be able to control the pain with your thought processes, and your pain tolerance, and breathing exercises. Pain is only registered through your brain, the nerve endings send signals to your brain, and your brain processes this as pain.

*edited to add* If you focus your thoughts on something else, whether it be seeing the baby, something on the wall, or even just your breathing, it takes your mind away from the pain, thus not allowing it to be fully registered that you're in fact, in it, and it won't be as sharp.

Quoting nicole & alessandra:“ and they are correct!!!! I havent felt anything that painful before in my life. ”

while laboring it was HELL... but it got better when i started pushing.. and like i said.. when they took out the placenta.. it felt really good to me.. lol i think i remember her looking at me like i was crazy.. because i was OMG that felt soo good lol

Quoting Beth [due 12-25-08]:“ I feel like I'm really in tune with my body as well. Idk, Maybe I'll "explore" some of these ideas and ... [snip!] ... mommies had to say about them. It's not like they can make it any worse considering I'm not going to have any drugs at all lol.”

To have a succesful drug free birth youitsbeststay at home and only go to the hospital at the very last minute. Being confined to a bed with monitors strapped to you and that stupid IV (which was horrable because it made me FREEZING cold) makes it soo much harder and worst than it has to be.

And if you know how to breath correctly then YES breathing helps a LOT during a contraction. But wow the feeling of the baby decende into the birth canal was the worst for me. The contractions where not soo bad but feeling her head move lower and lower HURT ahhh thinking about hurts. and pushing out holy crap just thinking about it hurts.

Quoting Beth [due 12-25-08]:“ I feel like I'm really in tune with my body as well. Idk, Maybe I'll "explore" some of these ideas and ... [snip!] ... mommies had to say about them. It's not like they can make it any worse considering I'm not going to have any drugs at all lol.”

i didn't have a choice about the epi not working.. but i am not even going to choose the epi next time... it hurt pretty bad.. but it was just awesome at the same time..

Quoting egyptiangodss:“ while laboring it was HELL... but it got better when i started pushing.. and like i said.. when they ... [snip!] ... felt really good to me.. lol i think i remember her looking at me like i was crazy.. because i was OMG that felt soo good lol”

Seriously.  
Man, when I was pushing, someone might as well have been shoving a dump truck up my vag. I wouldn't have known the difference.