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@PawPrints: @Mrs. High Heels: Same here! Ring of FIRE.. OUCH!!!
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@PawPrints: lol! Mine hurt but I only pushed for 8 minutes before DS was born, and the crowning only lasted through two contractions. So it wasn't as bad as the two hours of contractions before I got an epidural.
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@Cole: I feel exactly the same about lidocaine and the "golden hour." I felt every damn stitch and screamed in baby's face more than once as she was skin to skin on my chest during the repair.
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With all 3 of my kiddos, it was definitely waiting to push. I had an epi with all 3, and still distinctly remember writhing in pain while waiting on the doctor to arrive so I could push. I'm pretty sure I was not so nice during that time (and I delivered at the hospital where I work for my last 2
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Breastfeeding contractions with #3 come in a close second though. I DREADED nursing those first couple of days. -
Transition even with an epidural. I had the shakes and the pain was tolerable, but it was pretty intense.
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Contractions pre-epidural. My water broke and they came fast and furious so I didn't really have time to get used to them like my natural childbirth class advised. Plus I was stuck in triage for hours waiting for a room to open up and they wouldn't let me move around so it was agonizing.
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The whole process. I felt like my heart was going to give up from the pain. The ring of fire is no joke, but the pain was already so intense, it just made me want to push (regardless of tearing) just to get it over with. I knew it was going to be painful, but I didn't think it would be like torture. Note: I was induced due to heavy meconium and the epidural failed.
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The stitching at the end - the worst!!!! My Dr turns your epi off after you hit 9cm so that by the time you can push you feel what you are doing...surprisingly childbirth was fine - it was stitching after the fact that hurt the most!
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@birdofafeather: AGREE. all of this. haha. I worked the ring of fire up so much in my head that it actually was no where near as painful as i imagined.
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With dd1 - the rectal pressure as she descended. Way more intense than I had anticipated and
With dd2- early in labor, I shifted myself in the hospital bed and got the most insane back spasm I had ever had (maybe back contraction?) and was in so much pain, I puked, was crying and couldn't breathe. My nurse was so unsympathetic. Her response was- this is what labor feels like. I think she felt bad when I didn't have a single back contraction the rest of the time and handled contractions easily for 8 hours. -
@Rainbow Sprinkles: There are people that like pushing!!??
For both (I don't remember much about my first), it was pushing! All of my 2nd was painful, everything!
My 3rd was by far the easiest, until afterwards when I hemmoraged, everything hurt after that! -
The ring of fire was probably most painful but it was short lived. Those transition contractions were no joke and I had no one really to help me through them plus they lasted for over an hour. So maybe a tie?
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My epidural didn't get to this one spot that one spot hurt!
And actually when they were shoving cervadil up there twice AND checking if I was dilated since I didn't have any meds then.
I felt the intense pressure when pushing, and while it did not feel good AT ALL, I wouldn't say it was painful.
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The epidural!
My body started pushing him out because he was SO low, even though I was only 6 cm dilated. I tried all sorts of things to stop the involuntary pushing, and got pitocin to speed up dilation, but nothing worked. After about 45 minutes of pitocin, I requested an epidural because I was told I would need surgery to repair my cervix if he forced himself out before I was 10cm.
Getting the epidural felt like a lightning bolt struck from my hip to my right foot -- my husband said it was the worst scream he'd heard, and it sounded so much worse than the previous 17 1/2 hours of labor. That said, I felt amazing just a few seconds later, and promptly fell asleep for the next 4 hours while my body stopped pushing and finished dilating.
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I didn't feel anything once I got the epidural. So I guess the contractions leading up till when I got the epidural.
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The contractions! Baby was posterior, so back labor with what seemed like back to back contractions with no break. Compared to those, I don't remember transition, crowning, pushing, etc. They were nothing compared to those contractions.
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This thread brought it all back. Ugh, why didn't you ladies just let me forget the whole thing!
Transition hour was particularly painful. Honestly, the most acutely painful part was having a foley catheter put in for my induction. The OB resident said this was the ONLY thing in her job she didn't like doing!
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With my first, contractions when my second epidural wore off at 8 cm.
With my second, the spinal headache I got after my epidural went too far and turned into a spinal headache. Painless birth, painful recovery. I was in so much pain I couldn't think or see straight... that was scary.
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After every contraction from like 6-8cm i would feel like I had to be. Squatting down on the toilet and the inevitable contraction that would start pretty much immediately after sitting down was excruciating. The fundal massages immediately postpartum were easily the worst though. I had extra bleeding and therefore more massages. Yay me!
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@PawPrints: Honestly I don't even remember the crowning! It's all a painful blur to me!
In order:
-Immediately after, when they were pushing to get the placenta/clots out. It's the only time during labor that I yelled.
-Back labor at home getting from 3-5cm. I had been sent home from the hospital and was in denial that I was in real labor. I was restless and frustrated and discouraged, and that made them worse.
-Transitional back labor at hospital, after epidural failure. I remember that it hurt like a bitch, but I was very turned into my body. I sat hunched over my belly and don't think I made a sound the whole time.
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Pushing, particularly when on hands and knees. I pushed for 4.5 hours so it got old and felt like my rectum was going to explode.
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With Charlie, 8cm contractions. omg it was painful way before that.
With Olive it was the stitches!
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My contractions were painful and 5 minutes apart from the start of my 24+ hr labor. But there was a huge difference in the pain I felt about 12hrs into it, right before my epidural. I was telling DH how much I loved him and crying with relief when they said I could get the epidural at 5cm lol.
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2 hours of pushing after epi wore off just before go time!
Ds2's labor was so fast that I can't pick between pushing or contractions/transition, but it was unmedicated labor and delivery so it was just intense overall!
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When DD finally dropped during labor and closed off my bladder/urethra. The intense pain of having a full bladder and not being able to pee distracted me from the pain of transition. Can't figure out if that was a good thing or not. I had an unmedicated birth but did beg for an epidural knowing it would fill the pain of having to pee. I ended up just getting a catheter and that offered some minor relief.
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