Tough question to answer!!

**tears_of_joy** · October 4th, 2007, 01:05 PM

OK.

What i would like to ask is if any of you ladies are able to describe what the pain of a contraction feels like?

I know we all feel them differently but the reason i ask is My dh really upset me a few days ago when we were reminiscing about my labour and he said that he honestly thought i was a bit of a wuss!!

I didnt think so and the pain i felt with the contractions were pretty intense.

I just wanted to somehow tell him what they felt like so that he understands.

Thanks ladies.

**C~Q** · October 4th, 2007, 01:28 PM

Hmmm, you do forget don't you! I would say kinda like period pain (not that that helps DH!) erm...really bad cramps where you can't catch your breath and the pain floods through you from your head to your toes.

Does that make sense? HTH!

rolymogs · October 4th, 2007, 01:38 PM

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**aussienic** · October 4th, 2007, 01:38 PM

first of all I think I would slap my DH if he said I was a wuss

the way i describe it to people is this.. you know when you kick your toe and it hurts like a B**ch. Well times that by 100 and slowly build up the pain over 18 hours

or the pain you get when you have a tummy bug...

**tears_of_joy** · October 4th, 2007, 01:52 PM

first of all I think I would slap my DH if he said I was a wuss

I felt like slapping him!! My mum was there when i had my DS too and when i told her, i think she would hav liked to also!

The pain was like nothing I have ever experienced ever, and I doubt I will ever feel pain like it again. It was like my insides were being ripped apart in waves of pain over and over again and I had no idea how I could survive such pain...but I'd do it again in a second!

Me Too!!

RachaelM= Thanks, yep it makes sense to me.

Thanks ladies. I will tell him and see what reaction i get lol.

**Karina** · October 4th, 2007, 05:24 PM

I would have to say that the pain was like nothing else I had ever felt before.. It was enough to make me feel physically sick (although luckily I didnt actually spew!). The pain made me feel very short of breath. And the actual pressure of the contractions was probably worse than the pain itself because it felt like I was being crushed.

I cant really compare the pain to another pain though.

Having said that, it was also exciting, LOL.

**Nadine216** · October 4th, 2007, 07:13 PM

I did not have contractions

- bub came to early.
My gyne told me that it would feel like AF cramping
A friend of mine told me that it feels like being constipated and having terrible diarrea tummy cramps at the same time. I can only imagine!

**cruemum** · October 4th, 2007, 07:17 PM

To me they felt like someone took a clamp and was tightening it then loosening it then repeating it over and over again harder and harder.

**Ashlee** · October 4th, 2007, 07:19 PM

*pucnhes your DH in the head* Sorry sweetie, I can't explain the pain but it was soooo intense, and soooo not what I expected. He needs to have a baby THEN he may say you're a wuss!

paradise lost · October 4th, 2007, 08:47 PM

Tell him to imagine someone is reaching inside his scrotum and giving his testes a chinese burn, and just as the pain dies away they do it again. And again but for longer. And again but sooner and for even longer. Ad nauseum (until he's sick) and then some more until he thinks he wants to give up right then and there, and then he has to push and strain as an orange comes out through his penis. Yeah fun. Wuss....?

Bx

**tears_of_joy** · October 4th, 2007, 08:52 PM

Tell him to imagine someone is reaching inside his scrotum and giving his testes a chinese burn, and just as the pain dies away they do it again. And again but for longer. And again but sooner and for even longer. Ad nauseum (until he's sick) and then some more until he thinks he wants to give up right then and there, and then he has to push and strain as an orange comes out through his penis. Yeah fun. Wuss....?

THANKS LOL!!! I will definately be telling him this. Then we shall see who the wuss is. I think the look on his face will be priceless.

**Erin_25** · October 4th, 2007, 08:51 PM

If my DH said that to me he would get a real good punch in the face!!! I was induced so they came on fast & strong from the very start & I was not prepared for it. I remember yelling "I can't do this" after only an hour as it hurt soooo much. But yes I will too do it again. Walk up to him when he's not expecting it & just kick him between the legs...when he squeels like a girl just say "felt worse than that" & walk away!!!

**Schmickers** · October 4th, 2007, 08:52 PM

I wonder if he has ever broken a bone, or dislocated something? I ask because I have, and it was the kind of intense pain that made it difficult to breathe, and that made me nauseated.

So like this ... over, and over again. Ask him to imagine having his ankle broken every five minutes. And THEN, at the end, trying to do a poo that is so large that he can feel his sphincter splitting and tearing apart.

And if he's still unsympathetic after that, I don't know what you could do ...

**tears_of_joy** · October 4th, 2007, 08:57 PM

LOL Erin, that would be an idea.....i want another bubba eventually though lol!! I actually cant believe he had the guts to say it, let alone right to my face. I felt as though i could have got quite vicious!!

Schmickers= i will have to ask him if he has, thats actually something i still dont know lol.

These descriptions are great, when i tell them too him i might just get treated very nicely