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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, I did natural labor, and it was 30 hours of hellish pain.  Totally worth it.  I think a lot of people don't have what it takes to endure and overcome trial and pain anymore.  I'm as proud of overcoming 30 hours of pain as I am of other accomplishments. Just feels good to not have given up because I couldn't take it.

P.S. I completely, 100% support c-sections and other interventions when necessary.  I just think it's sad so many women give up because they can't take the pain, and get epidurals.  I know I'm weird, but that's my view, OP.  I don't think you're a failure, I just think you should have stuck it out, much as I would think someone who trained for a marathon should cross the finish line.[/quote]

Whenever I get migraines I go 24 hours with the blinding pain. Its's TOTALLY worth it. I mean people just don't have what it takes to endure and overcome trial and pain anymore.  It is such an accomplishment each and every time I suffer through my migraines without pain meds. This goes for my kids too. When they get ear infections, I just tell them to suck it up, no Tylenol for them!  They need to build some fucking character like it the olden days. Oh yea, we also have sheep and spin our own wool.  So cool![/quote]

Not to feed the troll, but the pain experienced in childbirth has purpose, and is very different from the pain of injury or illness.  It ebbs and flows, it eases and peaks, it falls away with position changes and counter pressure and warm and cold, in water and and under water, and it is not static--it changes second to second.  Some moments can be excruciating, and some moments can be so relaxing, you fall asleep.  One second you might feel utmost effort, and the next, complete peace.  There is a moment in almost every woman's labor when everything, all that she is, silently screams "THERE IS NO WAY I CAN DO THIS," and that is the cue for observers that the baby is ready to be born.  That moment is normal, expected, and necessary, because it takes an act of will to choose to participate in the pushing.  You need to make a free will decision to let your body do what needs to be done.

There is nothing retro about the physiological process.  Giving birth, having cycles, making love--all part of a woman's healthy reproductive life.  [/quote]

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