Natural Child Birth?

As a birth doula and mom who has given birth naturally, I can try to answer this for you. The pain is something like this: Have you ever had horrible stomach cramps and diarrhea? Like when you are sitting on the toilet and you feel hot and sweaty from the pain? The contractions you feel in labor are like that… times 100.

Natural childbirth is the safest way to have a baby for both you and the baby. I’d suggest you take a class (with your partner) on natural childbirth and hire a doula to attend the birth with you.

I’m a first time Mommy-to-be, and I have every intention of having a natural childbirth. I think I have a strong enough will power to make it through. However, I may get there and say, “OH MY GOD! Please drug me up!!” I wish you the absolute best of luck!

My sister told me its like a really bad period, have you ever had a period where a sudden cramp came on and it lasted for like 2 mins and you doubled up pain??

Now take that cramp and x it by 100 according to my sis shes had 4 kids all natural so it cant be that bad because she did it another 3 times natural

It hurts, but it’s so worth it! The contractions feel like menstrual cramps times 100, which to me was the worst part. The pushing part really doesn’t hurt, it actually feels good (LOL- if you could call it that) because you are concentrating on doing something instead of thinking about the pain you are in. And I didn’t really think it hurt when the baby came out either, it was just making through the contractions that was the hard part. Try it, you won’t regret it, and you will feel a HUGE sense of accomplishment. Good luck!

oh I would not be doing this natural! lol. I have started getting braxton hicks, and I can’t imagine what real labor is going to feel like.

It’s a personal choice. I am going to get the epidural but only because I am such a wuss and hate any kind of pain.

What the hell is with the thumbs down? I said natural birth was a choice, and not one for me. I could not imaging the full blown pain of labor with no drugs.

it can not be compared to anything you have ever felt before…. It is pretty painfull but I still had more kids LOL didn’t use pain killers with 3 of my 4…the 4th was a c-section….. so it was a must=c)

lets just say i turned into the devil and the whole hospital had to of heard my screaming. it hurt so bad. lol.the first thing i said was “i am never having another baby”

i had gas and air, morphine and an epidural. i couldn’t have done it without the gas and air or the morphine!!! contractions were reli reli painful.. i wasn’t going to have an epidural but my baby was on her side so they had to turn her.. so i ended up having to have one. so i don’t know what the pushing part feels like but my friend just had a baby and she said it was agony!!! good luck though and congrats babe! xxx

Child birth is a completely different experience for every woman. Some women (surprisingly) don’t find it very painful at all and others would rather die than go through it again. Imagine pushing a watermelon through your vagina… it’s going to be painful. But there ways of managing the pain that don’t involve a catheter and gigantic needle. Your endorphins and adrenaline will help some. And if you’re having “back labor” you could get sterile water blocks (they squirt a small needle with saline into the muscles in your lower back and it sort of numbs them– but you can still move your legs and feel everything else, unlike an epidural).

Ok first of all don’t project that birth is soo painful. Research actually shows that 1% of all women in United States experience a Painless Childbirth. That’s 45,000 per year. Now when I say painless here’s what I mean:

Pain is associated with something gone wrong, while childbirth is a natural event, with a known outcome. Even though labor can be intense, usually a contraction lasts just one minute. A woman can manage that one minute. This is not a new technique, but a shift in consciousness from “Labor is happening to me” to “My baby and I are working together towards the same joyful goal: the arrival of new life.”

Get yourself some good books on natural childbirth, Drugs during delivery will not only change your experience of the birth, but can make a huge difference in the baby.

Go to this website and see with your own eyes painless childbirth videos
http://www.joyinbirthing.com

Get a doula that will help you out a lot!!!! go to Dona.org and find a doula in your town

Here are some great books:
Painless Childbirth : An Empowering Journey Through Pregnancy and Birth – Giuditta Tornetta
Childbirth

Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin

Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Harper

The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer

HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method: A natural approach to a safe, easier, more comfortable birthing (3rd Edition)

it hurts very bad i went in labor at home and it woke me up with the worst stomach cramps of my life i could not stand i felt like i had to use the restroom i went and sat down on the tolit and once i did the pressure was so strong i was unable to get up so we called the ambulance the took me to the hospital and when i got there they told me it was to late for pain meds because i was already dialated to a 8 i was sooo scared and screaming because i was in so much pain then my dr told me it was time to push i asked him if that would hurt he said no pushing feels good so i started to push it felt like someone was holding a lighter down there burning me because your stretching once the head popped out it was sooo much relief! i never want to have another child natural again lol the pain was worth it in the end !!!