Moaner in the beginning with heavy breathing, but then when my body takes over I scream/yell....particularly when someone tries to boss me round or tells me to be quiet :lol:
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Moaner in the beginning with heavy breathing, but then when my body takes over I scream/yell....particularly when someone tries to boss me round or tells me to be quiet :lol:
I was silent, or whimpering at the beginning with both my posterior births until they broke my waters and then I screamed and screamed and screamed ...
I made it to 9cm with DD2 before they gave me a c/s - she was in a footling breech position - I only moaned through her labour and only for the last couple of contractions ... huge difference
Didn't know they had a name for it, i suppose it was a groan sort of grunt when i was pushing them out, sort of like when tennis players grunt cause they're putting so much effort into it iykwim. Makes me clucky just thinking about it. I could so do it again, maybe not my first labour but def the second..it felt sooo good to push her out!:
Bit of both looking back the screams were followed by midwives telling me to slow my breathing now I understand why I did pity any first timers that may have been on the ward just starting their labor to listen to me would have scared the be geebers out of them
I was a moaner and groaner and had a bit of a cry at transition. Then pushing I was a deep groaner.
I definitely think screaming can a sign of feeling a bit out of control. I was "trained" by my SIL-midwife-support-person to channel that energy in to relaxing my body, lowering my shoulders and moaning rather than anything else.
With Phoebe, once I arrived at the hospital I was so pushy it was crazy. I grunted like a beast while I pushed and I too had a MEGA sore throat afterwards. I appologised to the midwife when I realised how sore my throat was and said, "I must've been very noisy!" LOL. She was very gracious and told me I wasn't. But we both knew. ;)
A bit like Nickel and Lily Dust, I am silent and breathing until crowning, where I groaned a couple of times with DD, but not with DS. When it's transition time my out breath has a 'note', so that it sounds like a yoga 'om'. Just channelling everything into a peaceful delivery and letting my body use all its resources to do what it knows how to do.
So, groaning, I guess, rather than a moan!
totally agree and so true of my labours. first time labour i was scared out of my wits, no one there seemed to be paying me much attention, i was a screamer. when the midwife changed shifts the fist thing the new midwife said was 'stop screaming you are going to have a sore throat'. she didnt say it nicely or give me a reason and i felt really ****ed off at her.:
second labour, i was more of a moaner and then grunter towards the end. i was in a much better head space, more prepared.
i wish i had a good midwife the first time round.. or even knew that douulas existe4d.
Mostly i think i was a moaner, but a bit of yelling when crowning!