Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have given birth to seven children, so far!
The first was at a hospital. I was 7 hours into labor and was told that I had to have an 'emergency C-section'.
I refused and they actually said they would knock me out and perform the operation regardless.
I contacted a lawyer and gave birth on my own 10 hours later.

The rest have all been born at home, almost all outdoors, and I had very strong orgasms with each!
This is a natural pleasurable process and it is fear and tension that causes pain, nothing more.

Good for you, Earth Mama! Most of us don't have that experience & most of us experience pain no matter how much we don't want to. I really resent it when people say that L&D are not painful experiences. I've just delivered my 3rd child (almost 3 weeks ago), had a doula, no pain meds, was not scared or nervous, was allowed to move, change positions, etc... It's true that the pain only started at ~7/8cm, but it got tough really quickly. No matter how I changed positions or changed breathing patterns, I just couldn't cope with the intensity of the contraction peaks...maybe b/c I was on pitocin. Nonetheless, IT HURT, so don't tell me it was all in my head, or anyone else's head. Thanks.

Amen.

Anonymous wrote:I have given birth to seven children, so far!
The first was at a hospital. I was 7 hours into labor and was told that I had to have an 'emergency C-section'.
I refused and they actually said they would knock me out and perform the operation regardless.
I contacted a lawyer and gave birth on my own 10 hours later.

The rest have all been born at home, almost all outdoors, and I had very strong orgasms with each!
This is a natural pleasurable process and it is fear and tension that causes pain, nothing more.

Good for you, Earth Mama! Most of us don't have that experience & most of us experience pain no matter how much we don't want to. I really resent it when people say that L&D are not painful experiences. I've just delivered my 3rd child (almost 3 weeks ago), had a doula, no pain meds, was not scared or nervous, was allowed to move, change positions, etc... It's true that the pain only started at ~7/8cm, but it got tough really quickly. No matter how I changed positions or changed breathing patterns, I just couldn't cope with the intensity of the contraction peaks...maybe b/c I was on pitocin. Nonetheless, IT HURT, so don't tell me it was all in my head, or anyone else's head. Thanks.

Anonymous wrote:I find this hard to believe. Sadly, I am aware of the reverse - the fact that an orgasm can bring on childbirth, thanks to my mother-in-law's way-to-detailed description of her pre-term labor with DH.

eww!

Anonymous wrote:After bearing 3 children (over the course of 4 years) w/o pain medicine I still have yet to understand at what point during labor (and delivery??) that people are talking about having orgasms.

Please enlighten me b/c the only thing mother nature lets me remember is A) the intense flu-like symptoms the day before I gave birth B)the PMS/food poisoning intense cramps of contractions C) the burning ring of fire as I pushed D) the euphoria of finally holding and meeting my little Peanut

So...at what point was I suppose to feel (or initiate) an orgasm?

It's humilatating enough that your spread eagle in front of the doc and nurses so I'm certainly not going to show them my O face!

Ditto. My sentiments, EXACTLY.

I'd settle for an orgasm during conception.

Is this thread for real? Seriously?

"Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow (etzev) and thy pregnancy: in pain (etzev) thou shall bear children ... And unto Adam he said, ... cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil (etzev) shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life"

Whoever started that thread should try to revise the Bible...

I suspect this thread was started by some fantasizing male. In all honesty, this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. New expectant mothers should not delude themselves that they might have an orgasm during delivery. If you manage to avoid or manage the agonizing pain that childbirth entails, you're ahead of the curve. Don't imagine that the process of pushing a baby out of your vagina is going to feel pleasurable.

I really hate to be a buzzkill, but as someone who deluded myself into thinking I was going to have a "positive birth experience" and ended up with a third-degree tear, months of pain, incontinence and a whopping case of PPD, I would really recommend that expectant mothers avoid the kind of wishful thinking that the person who started this thread is (perhaps inadvertantly, or perhaps deliberately (see my fantasizing male theory above)) encouraging. Hope for the best - but don't forget to be prepared for the worst.

Anonymous wrote:I find this hard to believe. Sadly, I am aware of the reverse - the fact that an orgasm can bring on childbirth, thanks to my mother-in-law's way-to-detailed description of her pre-term labor with DH.

LOL. I can only imagine the conversation. Makes my interactions with my MIL seem a bit better, even if she goes into TMI territory quite frequently.

I have given birth to seven children, so far!
The first was at a hospital. I was 7 hours into labor and was told that I had to have an 'emergency C-section'.
I refused and they actually said they would knock me out and perform the operation regardless.
I contacted a lawyer and gave birth on my own 10 hours later.

The rest have all been born at home, almost all outdoors, and I had very strong orgasms with each!
This is a natural pleasurable process and it is fear and tension that causes pain, nothing more.

7:31 - well said. As for masturbating during labor, good God, my belly was too big to even reach that area!!