YES. I’m all for epidurals; I went into labor with 3 hours of sleep so I needed it for the ability to rest. But it was so strong that I when they said I’d be pushing soonish I asked them to turn it off. An hour later + and over an hour of pushing before I even felt ANYTHING. I pushed for an hour and a half and how…

UGH. Fuck that doctor!!! You should have been allowed to labor however the fuck you felt like laboring. This is the other element of the issue, aside from the lack of education women get on their options for labor & delivery. Doctors are just focused on what’s easier for THEM, not what’s best for the mother. I’m sorry…

I would like to reiterate that we are very fortunate my daughter and grandson survived and thrived. Many, many other women and babies aren't so lucky, theirs are the true horror stories. 

Totally...everyone’s experience is different. I had two very textbook labors & deliveries, so obviously I can’t speak to a situation where the baby is breech, or transverse, or anything like that. I imagine my approach would have been different had that been the case. I sure was begging for an epidural with my first…

When I went in for a tour of the maternity ward pre-labor the nurse we met who had been there for over a decade (if not multiple decades) said “Pain is good!” and went on about that for a few minutes. That was terrifying that the person who could have been in charge of ensuring that I get treatment thinks pain is good…

I was super lucky to be offered gas and air for both of my deliveries. For my first I couldn’t calm down enough to use it properly and ended up with an epidural but for my second it was AMAZING and I didn’t require any additional pain meds. According to the two midwives who delivered me I was cracking jokes the entire…

4 unmedicated births here. I tore with my first but so minimally that it healed on its own. I did not feel in control enough to slow off from pushing but it was no matter. I only find the last several minutes before finally giving birth to be seriously painful. I know the end is near when I don’t think I can do it…

This particular doctor was the "obstecrical superstar" of the community.  I doubt I would have been listened to. 

When I read that the United Kingdom had been offering gas and air to women laboring in their own fucking homes in the goddamned seventies and the US didn’t offer it to me in a hospital in 2014 I flipped shit.

I had a similar experience - unmedicated birth with a minor tear (I forget how the rating system works, but mine was at the lowest end of the scale). I had no idea about the tear until they started stitching it back up - the adrenaline from the delivery was such that it did not register at all. I was scared that…

I’ve given birth twice and tore twice. I was explicit in my preference for NO EPISIOTOMY unless it was necessary to save the baby’s life or mine. I was lucky enough to give birth in a hospital that was ok with an unmedicated labor and was attended by a midwife who did things like pressing a warm towel against my…

Thank you, I think I got in a light kick to his left shoulder. When the horrified nurse told him what he had neglected to do, he said, “Oh well, it’s too late now.”

Injury? Meet insult. 

It's really gross and so insensitive.

I hope you succeeded, a kick to the face would have been well-deserved.

Because grown men can’t enjoy adult women’s vaginas, and they all actually long to be shagging some tight teen pussy? What a gross fucking thing to say.

I had them done with both of my daughters’ births. As I mentioned in another post, the doctor that delivered my older daughter forgot to numb me before he started cutting. I was able to free one leg from the stirrup and tried to kick him.

I remember hearing one give a suggestion to use craft glitter instead of cosmetic glitter to save money. NO NO NO NO NO! Your eyeballs are worth more than the $0.76 you save, please just spring for the cosmetic glitter

Feminized racism, huh? So, pink hoods and fitted sheets?

DERELICTE!