Describing Contractions...for men.

Muahahaha! (evil laugh) Delli, i LOVE how you think....oh, if only!

that video clip was brilliant!

For me the wave metaphor is the one. But the waves build in intensity and hurt! But you can feel it coming! If you have had a baby before as soon as you get one of the sore ones you think "oh that's right!! Now I remember, this HURTS!, and why the hell am I doing it AGAIN!!". So it's a wave of pain that has a definite peak and recedes and comes closer and closer. And sometimes you have to fight to let your body relax and not tense up when they start - cos that only makes it worse.

And oh yeah, that burning splitting in two feeling is like nothing else. SORE!

Its strange how different woman describe completly different things . I had a drug free labour and it only lasted about 5hrs of full labour (11 hrs from when my waters broke and first contraction), it was my first and only labour as i only have one child and for me the easiest part was the pushing part! to me the pushing part was a relief as i actually didnt find it painful , it just felt natural because my body was doing it and i wasnt in control, it felt very tight and alot of pressure , i pushed for a total of 5minutes! and in a first time mum it was the quickest pushing stage my midwife had ever seen so i was pretty lucky , also didnt have any tearing or anything , ouch i cant imagine that !!! funny how its so different for everyone and TBH iv forgotton what the pain of cotractions is like , i think my brain has blocked them out, i remember it BLOODY hurt but i wonder if i had a second baby if that memory of the pain would all come flooding back to me .

Edited by julz85

I really don't think I must have had it that bad.
Mine were definitely in waves but felt much like I had 'poo' cramps... (or number 3's) I spent most of my labours on the toilet, the first time I got angry at DH ringing the midwife (even though my cramping would come in 3 minute waves) because I just thought I had an upset stomach from eating a spicy curry the night before.

Pushing them out.. well thats a whole other story, but then by that stage I am so exhausted it all happens so fast I barely remember.

I thought the pushing was the worst part! It was SO nice to be able to push at first - it helped the pain a lot to be able to DO something... but then not only did the contractions start hurting just as bad, I has exausted, I remember thinking part-way through that there was no way I could ever get the energy to push anymore, I was going to be stuck with a baby up my fufu forever (in my not-so-rational labour thinking, that was a possibility, I kind of forgot that they'd manage to get it out one way or the other).