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Hey mothers, are contractions the most painful thing you ever experienced?


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Not for me. You can breathe through them ... as far as my entire birthing experience,  it was more painful trying to get up the first time after a cesarean and having the nurse push all the way down on your stomach after surgery.

I felt all of my contractions right up until the spinal block before surgery 

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8 hours ago, mthor said:

Post-op gas.

I have taken care of women who've had kids and kidney stones; all of them told me that kidney stones were a lot worse.

Initially the pain from kidney stones are worse, then your kids grow up and turn into teenagers.... super pain.

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21 hours ago, BlackNoir said:

This doesn't even sound like a Benji topic other than it's about vaginas.....This is an OP wrapped in delusion that the person who had these contractions are in some way special because they did what like 90% of women have done. (That's not a verified #)

Here's an illustration of my textbook:

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But it's nice that you think about fuggs in a thread about vaginal pain.

 

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I said nothing about your textbook.  Your OP suggests you're looking to identify how childbirth is defining for women not in the sense of "accomplishment" that tends to be attributed to it by society but in the sense of how it related to other personal milestones in a woman's life.  Moments of pain have profound psychological changes in addition to physiological changes.

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I don't mind having discussions with you, even after this, but please stop with the pretense of context ignorance when you are obviously well read and can pick up on them.

I will get back to the main topic and discuss that no further. I wasn't making any grand comparisons to anything. I just often heard that women say childbirth is the most painful physical thing they experience in their lives, and yes, some have worse. I just wanted to know what the mothers of UEMB have experienced in terms of pain, as my current chapter is about childbirth. That's it really. When it comes to formally studying psychology, I don't really try to apply what I learn in it to my life but just further extend my knowledge by asking random questions like this.

 

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Well, like I sad, it's worth exploring.  Too often, the whole "Is childbirth the worst thing you've ever experienced?" question tends to get thrown around without any real purpose. Sometimes people say it to fake empathy, sometimes its posited as a way of justifying men as boxing women into a gender role (i.e.  It was painful?  That just shows how important your role as baby machine is.)  The question itself can be well meaning, but it still has profound psychological components that need to be explored.  In essence, it's not a question that you might have greater intent, but it is preloaded with those grand comparisons.

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22 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

Well, like I sad, it's worth exploring.  Too often, the whole "Is childbirth the worst thing you've ever experienced?" question tends to get thrown around without any real purpose. Sometimes people say it to fake empathy, sometimes its posited as a way of justifying men as boxing women into a gender role (i.e.  It was painful?  That just shows how important your role as baby machine is.)  The question itself can be well meaning, but it still has profound psychological components that need to be explored.  In essence, it's not a question that you might have greater intent, but it is preloaded with those grand comparisons.

It's just pure curiosity on my part. It's funny I mentioned context earlier, as I realize now that maybe when I was younger, I would have taken that into more consideration more out of a lack of discipline. What I mean is that this class is human growth and development and doesn't really focus too much on gender roles regarding the mother in the same sense a gender theory course would. I'm sure later chapters in this text about adolescence and such will mention gender roles more. When I was younger, I probably would have just disregarded that and overlapped the subjects, almost completely ignoring the nuances. In this aspect, I give psychology more credit; it is at least pretty organized. I hope this doesn't come across as criticizing you positing that supposition, which I found relevant and useful; I am merely reflecting more on my studies now vs when I was younger.

(Also, you seem to somehow always have me dragging out the most grandiloquent terms out of my lexicon . . . er, vocabulary, lol)

 

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1 hour ago, bnmjy said:

It's just pure curiosity on my part. It's funny I mentioned context earlier, as I realize now that maybe when I was younger, I would have taken that into more consideration more out of a lack of discipline. What I mean is that this class is human growth and development and doesn't really focus too much on gender roles regarding the mother in the same sense a gender theory course would. I'm sure later chapters in this text about adolescence and such will mention gender roles more. When I was younger, I probably would have just disregarded that and overlapped the subjects, almost completely ignoring the nuances. In this aspect, I give psychology more credit; it is at least pretty organized. I hope this doesn't come across as criticizing you positing that supposition, which I found relevant and useful; I am merely reflecting more on my studies now vs when I was younger.

(Also, you seem to somehow always have me dragging out the most grandiloquent terms out of my lexicon . . . er, vocabulary, lol)

 

Use your SAT words, homey,

I tended to treat these classes as interdisciplinary in college, almost out of sheer boredom.  Of course, I took a traditional Intro to Psychology class, not something this specific.  Nonetheless, the point always was to pick out the parts that mattered for classes I actually cared about in my major.

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Just now, discolemonade said:

the thing is.....why come here and ask this? 

there's like a handful of women that have had kids here. 

i mean...by my count, like....3?

seems like a lame attempt at bait. but whatevs. 

Well, what am I baiting? Have I not always said things like clitoris, vagina, hooha, gynecology, etc? I am taking a psych course about human development. The question is genuine with the usual expected awkwardness from me.

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