For some, labour is waves and waves of pain. For others, it’s like passing sausages.
From ‘natural’ births to emergency C-sections, no two births are ever quite the same – as readers of HuffPost’s popularPeople are endlessly fascinated by what it’s like to have a baby, whether you’ve got one, are expecting one, will soon or one day watch someone have one, or never plan on being a parent. There’s a reason ‘One Born Every Minute’ ran for eleven seasons.
Then the breaks grew shorter and shorter, and with that came a feeling of not being able to control what was going to happen next – a panicky feeling, because I knew I couldn’t slow it down. I shouted to the nurses that my body needed to push. When the baby’s head crowned I could feel myself opening, and with that was an intense sting, like a burning sensation – it felt like the prickle of skin after you’ve been splashed with hot oil while cooking. But this was mercifully short.
“Turns out I had gone from 0-9cm dilation in about half an hour. I was wheeled to delivery on all fours holding the bed like I was riding a chariot! 52 minutes later my son appeared with some assistance from gas and air – I don’t recall any pain really, other than the sting as he crowned. It felt like passing a string of sausages!”“I was totally out of it for the birth of my first daughter – I just remember hours and hours of waves of pain. Like my insides were in a pressure cooker.
“It was similar with my second baby, but we had a home birth and it was lovely not having to go anywhere, as well as the soothing feeling of being in the water. I was much more relaxed until the intensity increased, the swearing increased, the midwife twiddled my nipples and stroked my tummy. It helped to realise I never had to go through that pain again. I remember saying to my baby, ‘Come on little one’, and my midwife saying, ‘Yes, that’s what we want, you’re ready for this.
“With my second child, my contractions came thick and fast. I had a stomach upset at the time so was trying to decide what the pain was. When I realised, I rushed to the hospital. The car journey was so painful and the air was blue! Once at Triage, they rushed me into a room where they told me it was too late to havepainkillers, and you can imagine my reaction to that piece of news! In the end, though, I had no time to even think about it as she was clearly in a rush to meet us.
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