Anytime I hear the words "anesthesia stopped working" I feel like throwing up. You win.

No horror, but mildly amusing (for me anyway). Our second child was being born and her head had just started to crown. I looked at my wife and said excitedly in sort of a weird sing song voice, "WELL! There it is!!!"

So, some of you may have little bits of this already.

you'll love this. Hospital staff asked for my camera at some point... I get home and am uploading pics and see something weird...hmmm..wait, is that a bellybutton? Oh god. Oh GOD! A pic of my stomach OPEN with hands in it. Thanks random hospital staffer!

I went to all those hippy classes to and when it came time for my second all that went out the window. My little dude was a flipper, 40 weeks pregnant and he kept flipping, head up, head sideways, head down, head back up. So we had to schedule a c-section because he was sideways, which makes even a breech birth…

So this is my mother's story, but I must share it with you all. My mom was pregnant with her first child, my older brother, in the late 1970s. Her due date was in January, and she lived near Buffalo, New York, which gets legendary lake effect blizzards in the winter. I'm talking total white-out, feet of snow at a…

I have 4 boys. We thought the last one was going to be a girl at first, but... nope!

I am in the same boat as you. I am a week out of a c - section - went through a 40 hour labor, tried to do everything natural - but I ended up with a 10lbs 11oz baby, her head would not fit through my pelvis (turns out to be 11.5cm head) I pushed for 3+ hours to only give her a cone shape on the top of her head, while…

my birth was fine. Can we talk the first post partum poop, which was far more terrifying than giving birth?

I mentioned some of this on another article recently. And this is really more of a full scale pregnancy horror, story, but here goes. So, it took me 3 years to get pregnant with my son. That included the indignity of a plethora of infertility tests and treatments. I ended up getting pregnant while we were on a short…

Since this literally just happened to me and I'm recovering from a c-section after being discharged yesterday, I'm sort of vicariously excited to see what other people went through.

Of course I'm weighing in. Be warned, I am giving (almost) all the details.

Man, people are already taking this thread SUPER seriously and negatively. To all I say: chillax. This thread is not meant to stop women from becoming mothers. If you really want to be a mother, nothing in this thread will stop you, and if it does, then you really didn't want to be a mother.

Gah. Last time there was a horror story thread about childbirth on Jezebel, I was on the bus on my way to work, reading along on my phone. Then someone mentioned buckets, and isn't it crazy that the same supplies you buy at Home Depot can be used in delivery? NOPE. In horror, I shut my phone off, shut my…

Oh sweet jesus no. With 14 weeks and 5 days left..I can't read this (who am I kidding. Yes I can..I'll be squirming in my seat the whole time)

I had a really problematic pregnancy. When I delivered, I tore. Forward. This is apparently kind of rare, but I split up the middle toward my clitoris. I cannot explain how painful that was.

So I went to one of those super hippy birth classes (for TEN weeks) and they were against everything that doctors normally advise. This would include not eating a lot as you're going into labor, or the day you're to be induced (of course they were against that as well). I ended up being induced at 42 weeks because…

I understand why people would feel like they couldn't talk about this. If we're being honest about feelings here, I honestly felt no sympathy for the women above. To be honest, I saved all my sympathy for their children.