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 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Ouch. I wasn't aware of cases like that, I'm sorry.

[identity profile] shyshutterbug.livejournal.com 2008-10-29 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Not you at all - I was, er, special.

I'm 150% in favor of as unmedicated and natural a birth experience as the parents desire, but my mom's labor was one of those cases where if it hadn't been for modern medicine, one or both of us wouldn't have survived.

[identity profile] sickofyourbs.livejournal.com 2008-10-29 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
I understand. My labor did have it's ugly moments, particularly at the end - my son's vitals dropped, and when he was born, he didn't cry. Looking back at that, I am proud that I did it naturally, and will do it again... but next time, we'll be at the hospital for it.

[identity profile] shyshutterbug.livejournal.com 2008-10-29 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Your pride in that is deserved. I have immense respect for women who undergo an unmedicated labor and delivery.

My dad, at the time of my birth, was a quasi-professional photographer, and he took an amazing picture that might explain a lot about why I didn't cry: it's from right after I was delivered (hadn't even been cleaned off yet), the OB is holding me, and my face holds absolutely no indication that I might even want to cry. In fact, if I had to pick something going through my head, I'd go with, "What the hell is this???"

Mmkay, that had little to do with anything, but I just thought I'd share. Probably one of the better pictures of myself, actually...lol.
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