Why do you forget the pain of giving birth?
ByI have spoke to many people who have had natural childbirth including myself and you forget the pain you went through. I only remember bits and pieces of having my son.I do remember being in pain but it’s real faint. Does anyone have any idea why this is? Do you feel the same way? I was in labor for 17 hours. My son is now 3 1/2 years old and it was shortly after I felt this way.
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17 Comments
March 10th, 2010 at 3:42 am
my guess is so that the human race doesn’t die out
March 10th, 2010 at 4:23 am
I think it’s called selective memory. We all have it and we all use it.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:29 am
I WILL NEVER FORGET THE PAIN
NEVER
NEVER
NEVER
NEVER
NEVER
LOL
CATCH MY DRIFT
March 10th, 2010 at 4:40 am
I’ve never forgotten the pain, but the importance fades as you look at your baby and treasure the result of your labor.
Basically, though, I think it’s a trick of nature to keep us reproducing. =~)
March 10th, 2010 at 5:34 am
There is no pain because all your thinking is having a beautiful creature you created in your arms after your labor. It is true!
March 10th, 2010 at 6:08 am
because something in oujr brain some chemical blocks out certain things painful things mostly could be a car accident not just child birth why ask anyways do you really want to remember it. should of video taped it. take care
March 10th, 2010 at 6:32 am
It’s the Adrenalin rush I think, and you’re so happy and all the emotions and hormones are going crazy..Maybe it’s really just the hormones, over wise you may never another baby..
March 10th, 2010 at 7:24 am
I think we forget because it was so worth it. We look at our beautiful babies and nothing else matters.
March 10th, 2010 at 7:36 am
If I really think about it yes I can remember, but it was a pain that was worth it
March 10th, 2010 at 8:18 am
What kind of labor did u have? I will never 4 get all of that horrible pain.
March 10th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Epidural block was very, very good.
I did not feel any terrible pain.
I do not think I can do without it.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:08 am
I think it is some inborn survival mechanism. I had appendicitis that ruptured my appendix at 19 years old and I remember ever blasted minute of that 15 hours of hell. I cannot remember more than a few minutes here and there of the 20 hours of back labor I had. See-survival mechanism-if it wasn’t there, I would be making my husband sleep in another room and the human race would die out fast-it’s not like men are going to ever be able to take our place!
March 10th, 2010 at 10:54 am
OK I wouldn’t know about the pain of childbirth because mine wasn’t natural, I smiled the while time. Only thing I can think of is you block it from your mind for maybe one of two reasons. One the pain was just to horrible to want to remember or two because you really don’t want to remember. All you can remember is them handing you your baby and everything else just fading away. Maybe that’s why they call it the miracle of child birth….
March 10th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Selective memory
Some choose not to remember that moment. They just remember the joy that comes after it.
I did not have pain medication with either of my children and I have kinda forgotten the pain already and my youngest is only 1!
March 10th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Think of it this way: The species needs women to average
2 children in order to continue to survive.
If, after the pain of the first, they chose to never have birth
again, we wouldn’t be here.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Probably because it was so traumatic for your body that your mind intentionally blocks it out so that you will continue to have children………….. I dunno………
March 10th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
you don’t remember the pain of childbirth because of a hormone called oxytocin that’s released into your body during labor. it gives you this overwhelming feeling of happiness… that’s why you don’t remember much from your labor… your body makes drugs so you’ll want to do it again.