Actually the placenta is connected until birth. It still needs to provide the baby with oxygen. You can load up on certain painkillers as they don't pass through the placenta in the same quantities as others. Alot of women do load up and go almost completely numb, but you still feel the pressure and the contractions before the doctors load you up.
EDIT: *Punches Yams in the other arm*
Last edited by SammieBabe; 10-05-2006 at 04:43 AM. Reason: Yams is a dummy
Ah, I see.
Well, it's still better than pain all the way through, isn't it?
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This is pretty much the most ridiculous thing I've read on these forums in a long, long time. Devil Man, you can be annoyed all you like at these articles you're reading, but may I remind you that it is YOU who choose the media to take in, and YOU have the ultimate decision not to view these articles.
Saying a woman should "pop out a baby with a smile on their face" is one of the most ignorant and sexist things I've heard in my entire life. I think you have some serious respect issues, and you need to solve them pronto.
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looks painfull and i don't want to go through that pain
cause of Adam and Eve, we got it from God on the Girls side.....
Eve ate the Apple God got mad we have painfull briths now
WHY EVE!!!!!!!
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My mo kinda had it lucky with me and my sister. I do not know how long she was in labour with my sister, but with me it was only 43 minutes.
Childbirth is TORTURE.
The pain simply cannot compare in any way...any man who says rthey could handle it, or dosen't think it's a big deal, is full of it. My friend nearly DIED giving birth.
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My sister gave birth to both my neices naturally (with out all the numby things) because the epideral (sp) needle scared the hell out of her.
She has a high pain tollerance because I remember her saying when she had my first neice "All these ladies were totally screaming and they had the epideral! I bet it was less pain not having it!"
I'd prolly have my baby naturally as well, no scarry needles for me.
Good luck with that...><
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I remember my Mum telling me something similar to this. When she had me, she remembers all the other women around her in the ward screaming their lungs out. She, however, didn't scream and somehow managed to cope with the pain. Some of the other women were even grabbing the nurses, pleading with them to 'get the little £&*$'s out!'
I guess it shows how people cope with things differently.
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