*groan* afterpains! I had always thought that as soon as the baby was out the pain would stop... or at least after the placenta was out it would all be over and done with... uh uh not for me... baby came out, strong pain continued, couldn't hold baby until I'd been given pethadine... then with each BF it hurt again but milder... then last time with DS on Day 3, all of a sudden out of no where it was labour revisited and i wasn't even BFing!!! So bad I fell to the floor... had to have more pethidine. I'm kinda scared of that happening again... but like Barley said, this isn't true for everyone... I was just shocked that it happened to me though.... had never heard or read about it (or at least being so severe).