Labour and birth with DD1 was easier and painless then what i expected!!
So i thouight DD2 would be the same and it was the opposite..hurt like hell!! But the labour was much better in how i handled it. Was more full on..but i was more prepared
It took a lot longer then what I thought, but the pain was what I thought. The emotional high I got when my son was put onto my belly exceeded my expectations.
Mine wasn't how I planned it and it was a lot more intense than I thought it would be (I was induced though). Fingers crossed for a natural labour next time
Easier then I expected (but still not easy as such!) I absolutely prepared myself for the worst and I think in the end that was a good thing because things turned out really well.
I also didn't expect the imense (sp?) relief after it was all over! I was tired but on top of the world. I think having a previous mc put things into perspective for me.
an absolute nightmare, i thought i was going to die, i actually wanted to die..... horrific and scarring emotionally and physically.... very traumatic...... 28 hours of pure torture.
am hoping for a natural calm birth/hypno birth next time around.
no not at all!! i didnt want a c-section at all!! but ended up having a emergancy c-section!! i was scared out of my mind and was crying and shaking!! now i look back and what was i so afraid of nothing it was fine!but as for the labour pain it was what i expected!
pain you can never imagine!!LOL!!
but having said that i would rather go thru labour again than ever deal with a gallstone attack!! NOW THATS PAIN!!
It's amazing after bubs is born how you get this sudden burst of energy and just sit up all night starring at your new baby. I remember the nurse coming and saying to me, you need to rest I will take the baby for you. And I said no please leave him here I could hold him all night! She roused at me, and treated me like a 2 year old, I told her I was 16 not 6!!!
I didn't expect it to be easy, and I also expected it to be reallllly long - and it was long for me.
I've always been the person that asks people all the gory and inappropriate details about their births so I went into my first birth with my eyes wide open
I was expecting what I got for the first bits. Transition is tough. But what surprised me was the pressure of the pushing. I was expecting to be comfortable in between contractions like earlier but I wasn't. It was still okay but harder work than I thought. Also it seemed like a very long time.
it hurt about 100 times more than i expected. it was way more brutal than i thought....mind you i think it may have had a lot to do with getting induced, oh and ds being 10pounds3...but i have to say it was worse than i could have imagined.
motherhood though...is 100 times more lovely than i expected.
It was expecting it to be really painful but it was actually worse than I imagined. Like Emma, I felt traumatised by the experience. The other thing was that I had been told by everyone that the pain is forgotten once baby is placed on your chest - this was not the case for me and I needed 24hours before I could look at the baby and feel OK as he reminded me of that pain. My birth experience was considered quick and straight forward by the way - no intervention.
Having said that, I would do it again - exactly the same way, for another baby.
Heck no!
I was expecting mine to go for longer, and be far more painful than it was. Don't get me wrong, it was and it was a shock!! I don't know what I was expecting, but I sure wasn't expecting that! Each time I looked at the clock, more time had passed than I realised, possibly due to napping between contractions. I was expecting to squeeze DH's hand and break his fingers/ swear like a trooper and say "you did this to me, don't touch me!" but I was somehow pleasant and kept appologising to the midwife! Looking back now, I'm gonna try a bit harder to do it without pain relief!
For those of you that say the pain was NOT as bad as you expected, did you have pain relief? I find it hard it believe that anyone having a natural birth for the first time would have expected that pain (unless I'm a total wuss!).
The baby bit was a lot easier and less painful than I thought - less painful than a period for the contractions and pushing!
But I can't comment any further because I then didn't give birth - I couldn't feel a thing thanks to the spinal.
I also didn't expect so much bruising that I was incontinent for a few days - but that isn't normal (that was thanks to my obs). I didn't expect the ward midwife to be so rude and cruel either.
Everything was easier than normal apart from my so-called support, which was an on-going battle of me being told I didn't know what my body was doing nor did I know what to do and could not be trusted. That was half-expected but a lot harder than I thought it would be. I'm also still traumatised, I didn't ever realise birth was so traumatic!
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