https://anyakitty.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] anyakitty.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] vaginapagina2008-10-28 08:34 pm
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Labor and delivery curiosity!


Okay, I have always been SO curious about the nitty gritty details of labor and delivery. I am fascinated by those shows that come on TLC sometimes depicting natural and home births. I don't ever plan on having children but I just simply must know:

1. Is it really as bad as it is in the movies? Do people really scream/go crazy from the pain? Can you compare contractions to menstrual cramps to give me an idea of how much worse they are?

2. This is the big one... do a lot of women tear? How does THAT feel? Do they stitch you up or do you have to just let it heal or does it just simply depend?

3. After you give birth vaginally, is your vagina really never the same ever again? Is this only a physical, inside thing but also a visual, outside thing?

Please, don't spare me any details, I want it all no matter how questionable. It's either this or asking my boyfriend's sister who is pregnant for the second time and I'd rather not, haha. Thanks in advance!

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[identity profile] sickofyourbs.livejournal.com 2008-10-29 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
We're a poop-private couple, but when I was in labor, my husband walked me to the bathroom and popped me on the can to poop, and then helped me get up when I was done. I was a little mortified, but it was either him or my midwife, and I'd much rather have him see me poop.

[identity profile] pinkdramon.livejournal.com 2008-10-29 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Can you just poop while you're on the hospital bed? (I expect to give birth in a hospital if I give birth.) Like have someone get a tray? I don't know if I'm gona be able to get up to use the bathroom.

[identity profile] sickofyourbs.livejournal.com 2008-10-29 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
I had a home-birth.

[identity profile] atalanta0jess.livejournal.com 2008-10-29 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
I think the vast majority of women squeeze out some poop when they are pushing. After all...its all so close together down there. Its not a big deal, and you may not even know you're doing it. The hospital table (or your bed, or your floor, or tub) will be prepped to receive some mess - its likely you'll just poop on the chux pads or whatever, and the nurse/midwife/doctor/doula will just whisk it away.

[identity profile] lyenuv.livejournal.com 2008-10-29 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
I pooped on the bed, but I had an epidural, so I couldn't stand, much less go on my own (:
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