https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:07:03 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/3#post-2435962 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:52:23 +0000 cascademom 2435962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sslm: If it makes you feel any better, during my labor with my second kiddo, one of the nurses said that a fast labor for a second is a reward for a tough first labor. She wasn't wrong at all. By the time that I got into the hospital, I had progressed pretty well that I could have delivered him sooner than I did. The second time around, they delayed his entrance because of the antibiotics and GBS. My first labor was long (14 hours) and full of movement, etc. My second one was practically ignored while they waited until the meds took hold. Once I reached 4 hours after getting antibiotics, they delivered him. By that point, he had already pushed out his bag of waters and was putting so much pressure on that he was ready to go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/3#post-2435954 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:45:45 +0000 sslm 2435954@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I opened this thread planning to contribute and then realized it was a terrible idea to read all of these responses while pregnant!! It totally freaked me out!!</p> <p>That said, for LO1 it was the pushing. I do not know wtf people are talking about when they say that was some sort of relief. It was excruciating and way worse than contractions for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435939 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:38:14 +0000 cascademom 2435939@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Contractions. With both of my kids, my labors started with contractions. They're hard to forget when you have to wait hours for an epidural. Also, peeing after labor and delivery is pretty painful. It's worse when you can't and have to be catheterized as a result. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435920 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:26:26 +0000 snowjewelz 2435920@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The epidural never got to this one spot so that one spot was sooo painful the whole time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435513 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:49:54 +0000 mrsrain 2435513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jlm22: for what it's worth, as bad as the pain of labor was, it was gone pretty much as soon as baby was delivered! My second is due in March, and I'm definitely planning to go sans meds again. But, if there's one thing I learned the first time around, it's that birth hurts, and I will never judge anyone again for their decisions when it comes to handling it!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435502 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:41:56 +0000 mfa_lady 2435502@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Contractions were the worst for me. They started hard and fast after my water broke and kept coming like that for five hours. I actually felt like I got a break when I was pushing (not WHILE pushing) because I had the longest break in between contractions that I had during the entire labor. I hadn't gone to sleep (water broke right as I'd been getting into bed) and so I was actually dozing off in between pushing contractions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435485 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:20:47 +0000 Smurfette 2435485@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is it bad that I don't remember anything being bad. My water broke, contractions weren't that bad when I got my epidural, but I wa shaking so hard/bad/cold that I got it. So I don't even remember what contractions felt like. I didn't feel anything pushing and I don't remember recovery being that bad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435428 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 19:13:53 +0000 JenGirl 2435428@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pushing. Holy hell, the pushing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435426 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 19:10:45 +0000 GreenThumb 2435426@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe the foley bulb insertion... I was induced, so I had no idea what was yet to come, but that foley insertion was so bad it almost made me pass out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435419 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 19:00:45 +0000 namaste 2435419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cervical checks 😒 I'm still bitter about them. Only one nurse was gentle. The other two shoved their fingers all over the place. It was awful. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435314 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:52:15 +0000 LovelyPlum 2435314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: oh gosh, that was horrible, too. The midwife kept twirling the cord and massaging my uterus to get it to come out, and I wanted to throw up. I thought that was supposed to be the easy part! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435313 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:49:48 +0000 LovelyPlum 2435313@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ms. RV: yeeeeah, it turns out the epidural doesn't touch anything having to do with a pinched nerve. I learned that the hard way, too. I could hardly breathe it hurt so bad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435310 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:49:27 +0000 JennyG 2435310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS - Absolutely pitocin contractions!!</p> <p>DD - The five tries to get an IV placed hurt only slightly less than the ring of fire. Just kidding, that was terrible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435305 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:46:15 +0000 LovelyPlum 2435305@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>F-ing catheter. They left it in for like 8 hours. Drove. me. NUTS. But the pain from my herniated disc while pushing was what was really unbearable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435285 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:23:12 +0000 littlejoy 2435285@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Stitches. I had an unmedicated labor, so they gave me a local for the stitches ... It didn't really work. It was horrible!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435247 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 15:30:33 +0000 MCD919 2435247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The contractions were definitely the worst part for me...</p> <p>But there was a moment after the nurse inserted the IV when she squeezed the IV bag really hard and intense pain shot down to the insertion area. Idk why she did that, but it hurt so much I yelled at her... This was before my epidural, so I was definitely not in the nicest frame of mind either :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435189 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:07:35 +0000 sorrycharlie 2435189@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>the intense contractions with LO1 - my labor was so intense and fast, and they were on top of one another. I got the epi at 10 cm. ha.</p> <p>with LO2, honestly the worst was getting the epidural (and that wasn't even bad). the most painful, for me, was the emotional pain when they whisked LO out of the room because she had meconium in her fluid and they couldn't get her to cry. and no one updated me. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435187 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:06:52 +0000 Pumuckl 2435187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The ring of fire was very real for me with LO1. (He was born with his hand in his face). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435185 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:02:59 +0000 Ajsmommy 2435185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ring of fire. Worst pain I've ever felt. I let out this horrible animalistic sound....will never forget it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435117 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 12:52:46 +0000 alphagam84 2435117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My back hurt really bad for 2 days after from the epidural, like one big bruise and it rubbed every time I got in and out of bed at the hospital. I had plenty of pain meds during labor so the contractions were never that bad! I did have antibiotics given due to being strep positive and they were cold so they hurt flowing in and made me shiver. When they went to do the 2nd dose and I said how much it bothered me being cold the nurse said they could just let them come up to room temperature before giving them to me. Not sure why the first nurse didn't do that!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435061 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:53:54 +0000 Run2shore 2435061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Vacuum assist! It was Terrible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2435024 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 09:57:19 +0000 Rockies11 2435024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Fourth degree tearing + fractured tailbone + manual evacuation of my uterus long after the epi wore off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2434955 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 08:22:41 +0000 Ms maths 2434955@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The tearing, and then the waiting for the next contraction with the baby's head in the birth canal after the tear. It felt like I was being torn apart, while being sliced with a million knives, while on fire. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2434954 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 08:21:40 +0000 Ash 2434954@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Recovery from a third degree tear. Worse than recovering from my cs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2434953 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 08:14:49 +0000 jlm22 2434953@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not going to lie, my csection seems like a walk in a park after reading this thread. Kind of want to thank my baby for being breech after reading this. :shocked: It hurt to cough and laugh for a few days but it doesn't sound comparable to labor and pushing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2434912 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 06:26:10 +0000 MrsADS 2434912@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nothing was worse than ctx bit if I have to pick it would be recovery from my huge episiotomy. I'm 5 months pp and occasionally it still twinges. Sex still hurts. :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2434902 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 05:09:15 +0000 Alba4 2434902@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pushing for an hour was much worse than any contraction. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2434901 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 04:59:52 +0000 lamariniere 2434901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nothing was worse than contractions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2434900 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 04:58:34 +0000 Cherrybee 2434900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The monitor pushing on my tummy during contractions - ouch! Cervical checks were also super painful for me </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-most-painful-part-labor-andor-for-you-besides-contractions/page/2#post-2434891 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 04:20:04 +0000 littleblessings 2434891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The stitches I had after LO1. They kept getting caugt no matter what I wore down there. They also didn't dissolve until like 9 weeks. </p> <p>With LO2 it was my labor completely stopping and having to be put on pitocin because my water was broke </p>