I can not watch those birth scenes in movies where the women is screaming and her legs are in the air and a tiny human is being SLOWLY extracted from her not to mention the fact that there are so many people around her. It seriously gives me an anxiety/panic attack watching them, not to mention extremely uncomfortable. hehe

BUT
Those are scenes in a movie, so my question is:

What was your actual experience with child birth like?
Whether you were a coach, the mom, or the person delivering the baby?

Imagine the scenes in the movie and multiply it by 10.

OMG! I thought you were talking about working!

Labor - no thanks.


Ouchy ouch!

hun im become a DR and i have read help a wonman delivering her child its really nice but can be hard we do or best to make it easy for the mom

I was the Daddy! And it was horrible hahaha I think it was worse for me than it was for my ex-girlfriend. Prior to the experience, I had never watched any educational movies on child birth or anything like that.. OH, AND THE PLACENTA? HAD NO IDEA WHAT THAT WAS....

My hate for the scenes are not for the same reasons as yours. I hate them because it is NOT that quick, you do not look that good, and it hurts much worse than they let on! Lol

each experience for me was completely different.

i never screamed, either...that's a waste of energy. MUCH needed energy...

with my first, she was facing up instead of down, so it was a very long and painful labor...lots of back pain. my mother damaged a nerve in my back by pressing so hard to give me some relief. forceps, vacuum...still pushed for almost three hours straight. blech.

with my second, my husband almost had to catch her...took forever, but the doc didn't show until she was already crowned and coming out. no yanking, she slid right out.

my third was peaceful...she was only a week late, and only took thirteen hours. no complications, no difficulties.

my fourth took over 48 hours...and i had the whole town in the room. i was allowed two people. i chose mom, my daughter, my baby's dad, my best friend, and my daughter's best friend. since i was so comfortable, they asked if i would consent to having the nursing class come...which i did. doc tried to tell me that it would be fast, being my fourth...i told him to take his ass home and get some sleep while he had a chance. hehe...i was very right.

i've been labor coach twice. my friend slipped her kid out in just a few hours. my kid was only in labor for six...and it was her FIRST freaking kid! both times...were amazing. this little life emerging...such beauty, fragility, strength...all wrapped up in one.

Amen! 23 hours of labor with my daughter...
Fortunately it is a pain we forget. Otherwise there would be far fewer people in the world.

I don't know about childbirth,
but I had a toothache not too
long ago that felt like Thor
was pounding on my head with
his Golden Hammer.

It is anything like that?

Another question: Are you offended by men who gain opnion on child birth from watching their gf/wives give birth?

ouch...

NO NO theshotgunrule! You were talking about your experience......thats different than an opinion, and I am not judging men who have them on childbirth, I'm just asking all the ladies whats there opinion on men who have opinions on the subject of childbirth.

The father is part of that child, and if you wish should be there............and it can be just as painful for him..........watching the one he loves bring out the child they created.

it was funny though, she's never yelled at me so much at one time. her mom even said i turned light blue at one point.. that was when i saw the biggest vagina i've ever seen in my life.

I am not talking about experience, i am talking about opinion on childbirth BASED on their experience with it and what they believe a woman goes through.

EXAMPLE:
My pops from what he saw believes childbirth is easier than woman want you to think because my mother and the mother of his 2 other kids had an easy delivery. Than again, my younger sister (the one i share a mom with) was a difficult birth.

I went into labor at home and it lasted for four days. I had been in the hospital in an attempt to stop the premature birth at 27 weeks just the week prior. I kept calling the OB/GYN telling him "I think i am in labour". When i dropped to my knees that fourth morning and called his office i cannot type the words i said to that nurse but i promised i was on my way to the office. I drove 100 MILES in labor that morning. Was left to sit in the WAITING ROOM for 45 LONG MINUTES. When i got on the exam table the OB/GYN went WHITE and then panicked calling the OR to get the room ready. I had been fully dialated the entire time. I never screamed but i was ONE HOT MAMA being ignored for FOUR VERY LONG AND PAINFUL DAYS along with 45 minutes in that waiting room. My boy was breech and has CP as a result of that INCOMPETENCE and also has other disabilities as a result of that premature birth and spent 40 days in the NICU. In MY birth experience with my baby i felt that screaming and getting upset would reflect poorly on my child who was seriously premature and the shock would be bad on him thru my emotions. I had NO epidural, NO drugs, just rushed to the OR for an emergency c-section. He was born 20 minutes after the exam was done on that table. In lala land and hollywood they make it look so typical with the mother screaming, sweating, carrying on but in the REAL WORLD it isnt always as glamorous as a movie. If so i have won an academy award!!!!!

WOW Barbiesbigsister!

you are one hardcore mommy! I am sorry to hear what caused your child and you this life long affliction.

So you had no drugs and you still didnt scream?

Thats pretty awesome...so is child birth isnt really chaotic and fast-paced.....

And here is another question for all the moms:
I know this is a silly question...but what are you thinking when the baby is being born? How are you emotionally? Or is it one blur of moments?

it's...well...depends on how long and such.

i went from wanting a pizza, to being thirsty, to needing to pee...video games, soap operas, movies...news...normal conversation until the contractions make talking difficult.

then bone-deep exhaustion and feeling my nerves fray. i have an extremely high pain tolerance, but when it never ends...

luckily, my mother was there, and we did some hypnosis. so then everything was surreal, removed...

when they finally emerge, you can't wait to hold them. the rush, as much from hormones as anything else, is overwhelming. there is nothing else in the world at that moment but that baby, and the people that shared that experience with you.

then the shakes hit.

I'm just glad that I never had kids after reading this and seeing that "Knocked Up" movie!!

wow.......
Um.....May I ask.....How does the garage feel after the van drives out of it?
( I cant bring myslef to really say it, I m already starting to feel kicked in the crotch)

Or maybe this is something I should find out for myself.........