I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
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I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
After delivering my daughter in 2003, I endured and survived a hemorrhage, the leading childbirth-related complication that takes the lives of thousands of other mothers all over the world.
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.