Do you have a painful labor when you are on the delivery room

[caledonia]

I just want to share my experience when I am giving birth to my baby. They say that it is very painful when you gave birth to a baby, but since my bag of water leak first, I really felt no pain at all until my baby is out, they didn't also gave me painless. Maybe my baby really loves me and she doesn't want me to suffer for that. How about your experience, you can share it here too.

[AmbRena8708]

Oh the contractions werent that bad for me... Yeah it hurts a little bit but ppl make it seem WAY worse than what it truely is! I chose to recieve the epidural because my mother was in the room encouraging me to do so, sharing her horrifing natural birth experience... that was a mistake I reacted badly... My blood pressure dropped and my baby's heartrate fell with it we ended up in emergency surgery, so urgent they couldnt even wait for the surgeon to come from the cafeteria (my obgyn performed the surgery) scared to death she was going to lose one or both of us! If ever I have more children if possible BVAC NATURAL is my FIRST option!!!!

[TNShannon]

My contractions weren't bad, either...they seemed easier to handle because they got gradually worse, instead of hitting me like a truck. I would get through one, and knew the next one would be a bit worse, and that was okay...I had the mindset that I could handle it, and that I could handle any kind of pain that only lasted for about a minute. It took a lot of reminding myself of that, though!

My first child was a scheduled cesarean, and I went into labor the morning I was scheduled, so I had some contractions but they didn't get into the active stage. With my daughter, labor was fast and furious, and I wound up having an emergency cesarean with her. So I've gone through the labor, but haven't actually given vaginal birth. My experience is not for the whole labor, obviously, but I remember what labor I did have, and it wasn't nearly as bad as I had been told.