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> > I don't know how we can change this perception when so few women
> > actually get to experience a totally natural delivery. Even if induced a
> > woman still considers her labour "natural" and thus thinks it hurts to
> > bejeebus. I think books like the one Sarah Buckley is currently working
> > on will help alter that perception but it will take a lot of information
> > campaigning to change a paradigm that has existed for several
> > generations.
> >
> > Cas.
Cas, I so agree with you about the induced labour pain not necessarily being 'natural', but I haven't had an induction with my three. As a midwife I've seen some women go through some incredible pain for a very long time to achieve a vaginal birth. But some women seem to go through much more pain than others - why? Is it emotional and/or physically harder for some women every time.
I find it interesting, because I had three vag labours ranging from 12-14 hr from first niggle to birth with all three of them. I can honestly say, for the first 10 hours of all them, the pain wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Watching and caring for women in labour before I did it myself made me think it could be pretty horrific. Admittedly the last few hours were damn hard work, and that "slight stinging sensation" with the crowning was a lot more than SLIGHT!
I suppose we are all very different. It interests me as I have a girlfrind going back for her second birth, and is very frightened because her first labour was precipitate and an induction - and the worst part of the whole preg/birth spectrum for her.
Cheryl
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