Has anyone seen my right eyeball? It popped out of my head when I was thinking about what I would do if some dude told me I didn’t really experience labor.

Wow. Just, wow. I have a VERY pregnant colleague (E) and we were all doing cake for someone’s birthday a few days ago. Another co-worker (T, a woman, with two children), made some comment about how E couldn’t just “plan” to have an epidural, she needed to try labor without one first, otherwise, it wasn’t really labor.…

Shit, I’ve never experience labor, but I have experienced my mother telling my older sister and I the very detailed birth process (and my father confirmed that yes, you could hear her all over the hospital) and all of the resulting pain. She asked (begged) for an epidural for both of us, but they gave her gas for my…

I’m so sorry.

Holy shit. Shocked but not surprised.

Shit, it would be bad enough if a WOMAN said this to you. Even a pregnant woman! Fuck anyone who says this to you, but a dude? Jesus.

“If the experience doesn’t hurt you won’t be able to say you had it.”

I hope to God you told them they should pass kidney stones without pain meds. Please, please, please have this happen to them.

Some of the natural birth “Our Bodies Ourselves” women are just as bad if not worse. Like, if you have an epidural you are not a feminist, plus you hate your baby and are going to be a terrible mom.

My ex-wife described it to me as having a samurai sword shoved up her vagina and then twisted.

Oh my God, that is AMAZING.

I’m in favor of kicking men square in the seeds when they say stuff like that.

“Men were telling the very pregnant me that I should avoid an epidural because it wasn’t really labor of you didn’t feel it all.”

Oh good grief.

Jesus Christ on a bicycle.

You had men telling you that you shouldn’t get an epidural because apparently labor without agony is just not labor-y enough? Fuck them so very much. Also, p.s., they’re wrong. Epidural-having does not make labor a walk in the fucking park. Also, getting a needle inserted into your spine is less than fun. How did you…

“Ah wuz real bad constipated once! Same thing!!”

Oh but it’s for your own good don’t you know. Christian fundamentalists have been saying that ever since anesthetics were developed because in the Bible, God punishes Eve’s curiosity by condemning her female lineage to bear children “in sorrow”.

I hope you helped them experience it by pulling their scrotal sacks over their heads in an atomic wedgie type situation?

Hopefully you get some relief during the final weeks since that’s when the baby really puts the weight on. There’s plenty of research that skin on skin time and bonding is the most important aspects of feeding- lots of the “breast effect” is over stated. The protective effects for antibodies are present but not as…

Ugh those people make me furious! I’m so sorry. First, they are not your OB. If it were harmful your doctor wouldn’t prescribe it. In fact it would be more harmful not take take it because of the stress on your body and obvious lack of nutrition. I had it too. I even threw up on labor. I took the zofram the whole lot…