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I don't know at what point the pain could get unbearable, because when pain
gets unbearable for me I tend to stop feeling it - like you can only feel so much pain. This seems to be very true of childbirth. Does that make any sense? I'm actually really looking forward to this birth. Women have a much higher pain tolerance than men, that's why men don't get pregnant ;-) Seriously, I think people are in more pain when they are _scared_ of the pain....just go with it, trust that your body knows how to do it's thing - you'll be fine. "Shannon" wrote in message news:2004051112485411272%shannonNOSPAM@sdf1net... I was reading the very long thread regarding unassisted childbirth and pain and it got me thinking.... When people say that the pain becomes unbearable, what do they mean exactly? At what point do you know the pain is unbearable? Does the pain become unbearable for the mother (ie. you pass out)? Or does it become unbearable for the baby (ie. they become stressed)? Or both? Has anyone experienced a birth that was unmedicated and you went past the point where you could have an epidural and it became unbearable? -- Shannon Please remove -NO SPAM from email address to email me personally. |
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I've had two unmedicated births (out of three) and the only time the
pain started to get over the the top is during transition, when contractions are piling on top of each other. However, it doesn't last long, and then the urge to push comes over you and you have a focus. Crowning is also pretty intense, but at that point, its almost over. The real enemy is exhaustion, since if you get really tired, you can't cope with anything - you get strung out and at the end of your rope - so long, slow labours, back labours or labours that get stalled with contractions in high gear without progressing (such as sometimes happens when baby is in a less than great position) - those are the ones where mom gets past her limit. Its not as much a function of pain, but just being too tired to keep going. I've had a few friends who transferred from home to hospital purely for pain relief, and the common denominator was always that labour was not progressing well and mom got too tired to deal with it - back labour in particular seems to be quite exhausting. You'd be surprised though - you do NOT pass out from pain. I think that only happens in movies! Mary G |
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If you have having ctx back
to back, it's probably almost over anyway. I never had those. I was having contractions with no break inbetween and i was only at 5cm |
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"Leanne" wrote in message ... If you have having ctx back to back, it's probably almost over anyway. I never had those. I was having contractions with no break inbetween and i was only at 5cm How much longer did you have to go? |
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Shannon says:
When people say that the pain becomes unbearable, what do they mean exactly? At what point do you know the pain is unbearable? My second labor was back labor. For me, the pain became unbearable during pushing. There was no relief between contractions, just constant, terrible pain. I was writhing, unable to find any halfway tolerable position on my back or side or hands-and-knees, and unable to rest up for the next contraction and more pushing. I did have an epidural at that point, but we had let it fade for pushing. The baby was posterior and wasn't turning. I had more unbearable pain when the midwife put her hand inside and tried to help the baby turn. I remember shrieking and begging, "Please stop, I can't take any more." In 3+ hours of pushing the baby hadn't progressed very far at all, was still too high for vacuum extraction, and this being a VBAC attempt, they didn't want to let me push on and on and on. It ended in c-section. During my first labor, there was no point where I would say the pain became unbearable. I got the epidural at 7cm, but that was because I was afraid the pain would become unbearable. When we let the epidural wear off for pushing, I realized that I probably could have done without the epidural. -- Alpha mom to Eamon and Quinn |
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How much longer did you have to go? I cant quite remember, it was around 5 to 6 hours |
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You'd be surprised though - you do NOT pass out from pain. I think that only happens in movies! the funny thing about it is that you can pass out from pain.. people just dont seem to do it in child birth... just like your body doesnt kill your baby when it would kill anything else growing inside you at that rate... its all quite interesting |
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You'd be surprised though - you do NOT pass out from pain. I think
that only happens in movies! I must have been in a Movie with DS#2 |
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 12:48:54 -0400, Shannon
wrote: Has anyone experienced a birth that was unmedicated and you went past the point where you could have an epidural and it became unbearable? Yes. For my third baby I got to the point where I thought the pain was unbearable and yelled for an epidural. I couldn't manage to keep still enough for them to even get an IV in prior to the epidural. I then saw the midwife wave away the Dr telling him it was too late for either an IV or an epidrual. After that, when I just accepted that this was it, the pain was *heaps* easier. The birth was fantastic. I gave birth almost standing up. The midwives threw sheets and pillows on the ground and "caught" my baby - with me standing up and yelling "don't you dare drop him, make sure you catch good!" (I must also confess I could hear Todd Gastaldo in my head during this birth - I wasn't determined to give birth in any particular position but the pain was minimalised when I was standing in a kind of standing squat IYKWIM?) I've had one birth with a full, numbing epidural, another with a walking epidural and an unmedicated birth. The complete epidural wiped me out for days, they used *huge* forceps, I had an episiotomy and I had heaps of pain afterwards, could hardly sit down. The "walking epidural" just numbed the pain a little, but enough to stop me freaking out. I felt fantastic after this birth - no pain (except for normal afterpains). The third unmedicated birth resulted in no pain (afterpains though, of course) but I was physicallly exhausted, felt like I'd run two marathons. H |
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 14:01:20 -0500, Nan wrote:
You've keyed in on my experience with my first labor. I was so exhausted and so stressed about the *next* contraction hitting me that I couldn't relax. Same here. I also found that because my first labour was so intense in the middle of the night, I just wasn't awake enough to deal with it. All I wanted to do was sleep. I gave in and got a full epidural at about 4am because sleep was all I cared about at that point. (That was before I knew about sleep deprivation and when I thought I needed a full 8 hours sleep to live LMAO). H |
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