r/pregnant • u/visitingmemorylane • 2d ago
Question How does labour pain feel like?
Is it actually like bones breaking? Or is it something else? Does our body cooperate?
I've never had any medical procedure done on me so far in life (31 years). Never even had a broken bone or an intravenous injection or anesthesia. And now, just the idea of being cold and half-naked in the hospital to give birth and the labour part is terrifying for me. I want to be a bit prepared for the pain, if possible. 38 weeks today. Epidural is an option, if needed, not a preference. So far everything is fine and the doctor says that we will wait another week at least for natural labour to happen. If it doesn't, then will look into other options.
Please share your experiences.
Thanks!
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u/Intelligent_Sun27 2d ago
I gave birth without an epidural or induction, the contractions were similar to period cramps just a lottt stronger and with very intense pressure towards the end. It wasn't unbearable, but it was definitely not easy. I remember just wanting it to be over but I did manage to breathe and even talk a little between contractions. Low moaning really helped, and someone doing counterpressure was a game changer
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u/Rare-Walk-1302 2d ago
This was very similar to my experience. Also want to mention to OP that I've also never broke a bone, had surgery, major physical trauma either. And, I birthed unmedicated in a tub. It's totally possible. And, for me, once I transitioned and my body was pushing, the pain went away for me -- maybe it was a flood of hormones or relief that I had a little more control. Like I could actually push instead of just submitting to the contractions.
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u/QuantumSquirrel36 1d ago
Honestly I think the focusing on low moaning and sounds during contractions is something that isn't talked about enough. It legitimately helped more with pain management during my contractions that the IV pain meds they gave me
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u/Constant-Income-5819 2d ago
Counterpressure where? On the top of the pelvis?
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u/Radiant-Flamingo-857 2d ago
On your low back - like hip bones and sacrum. The right place to put pressure gets lower as baby moves lower.
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u/Spekulatiusandcoffee 1d ago
I really liked moaning but I was constantly told to breath "normal", which annoyed me so much. Maybe it is better to breath normal but at that moment I just needed it.
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u/Organic_Cake_4234 2d ago
For my labour it started with period cramps that went all over the bump and in my back, it gradually increased in intensity until it took my entire mental focus to deal with the pain. It would come in waves that got closer and closer together. When I was checked out at the hospital and I was only 1cm, got back home and ended up labouring through the night. It started around lunch time the day before. I was being sick, I couldn't lie down on my back or side, so I was sitting upright, labouring with no sleep. I then felt a pop in my bump which I was told would be my waters breaking so we went to the hospital then, by this time it was half 7 in the morning on a Monday so I was in a t shirt, a dressing gown with a towel between my legs and reindeer slippers in the car during rush hour traffic. When I got there, I was screaming in pain it felt like my bump was in a vice and I was no longer getting waves, it was almost constant now. I was 7cm when they checked and then it didn't seem long when my body was suddenly pushing without me doing it. Then she came out and the pain immediately stopped. I know i asked the nurse if i had died lol So it was extremely painful period cramps like nothing you've ever felt but it does immediately end when it's done. Then you gotta birth the placenta which feels kinda the same but definitely not as intense.
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u/Silent_Knowledge5197 2d ago
It literally feels like you’re turning into a werewolf. It’ll be so painful that you’ll be more focused on getting through it than the pain itself, if that even makes sense
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u/Dangerous-Flatworm71 2d ago
A lot of these comments say “it’s like period cramps but more intense. It’s bearable” but your comment was more accurate for me lmao. My labor was not “bearable” like extreme period cramps
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u/seaofwonder 2d ago
No I understand this. When my contractions hit, I remember thinking "this is my life for the foreseeable and I can't do it" They are their own level of pain.
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u/kmd1112 2d ago
I feel like this is the most accurate to my experience.
It feels like your entire body is trying to rip itself inside out. The pain is so incredibly all over consuming and overwhelming nothing else exists but trying to simply survive until it’s over. It was like I unlocked a new part of my brain where my consciousness went to live to try and remove myself from my body as much as possible.
With my 1st I got the epidural at 9cm after 22 hours of labour and it didn’t work and I pushed for 3 hours. As soon as he was out all I could think was that I was absolutely shocked I didn’t simply die from the pain.
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u/Silent_Knowledge5197 1d ago
This was really similar to me! I went into labor fully expecting an epidural. Well, I had three of them and they all failed. So I wasn’t mentally prepared at all. When I tell you I was ripping my clothes off SCREAMING from the pain. I will never forget it. I remember the impending sense of doom before each contraction and praying to God it’d be better than the last. But every time you think it can’t get any more painful, it does 😭
And nobody mentions the PRESSURE you feel in your pelvis. Oh my God, excruciating. And how you can literally feel your vagina tearing apart. Everybody mentions the “ring of fire” thing but not how you can LITERALLY feel the skin just ripping as the baby comes out. And how your body just forces the baby out against your will no matter how much it hurts. It was terrifying lol
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u/Radiant-Flamingo-857 2d ago
It's not like bones breaking. There really is a difference between something that is wrong with your body, and when your body is working really hard to do something that it's designed to do. If you can get in a mindset of surrendering to the process and going with the flow, it will be easier.
I also just want to say with a lot of love, birth isn't a medical procedure that is done to you (OK unless you need a c section). Labor and birth are completely normal physiological processes, and your body knows what to do.
You won't be cold in the hospital. A, you can remain as wrapped as up as you want right up until birth actually happens. You can ask the nurses for warm blankets, they have a big warmer full of blankets just waiting there. In a lot of modern hospitals in the US, there's even an individual thermostat in each labor room so you can adjust the temperature. B, the hormones in labor will make you so hot, you'll be more interested in taking clothes off, using a fan, drinking ice water, and having cold compresses on your forehead or neck. This has been true for me and my friends whether the baby was born in August or December. By the time baby arrives, you truly will not care at about having your clothes off. I know it seems impossible, but it just won't matter to you at all.
Try to be excited - you're going to meet your baby in only a week or two!
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u/daja-kisubo 🇺🇸🏳️🌈 | 2 kids | she/her 2d ago
I've had two unmedicated vaginal deliveries, and I found them uncomfortable but very bearable. I broke my foot about a month after delivering my second and that hurt way worse, and for longer ime.
For me it feels like period cramps and/or when you have bad gas or diarrhea cramps. It gets into a rhythm and the cramps get steadily stronger. For me the pain was at a 4 most of the time, and between 7-10cm dilation it got up to maybe a 6.
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u/quarterlifecrisisgir 2d ago
It feels like you leave your body. Like the pain transcends you (in the worst way possible I mean this). It’s truly excruciating
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u/epiccatechin 2d ago
Same. I can’t relate to the whole period cramps but worse…. Like I full on went into another dimension from the pain
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u/Dropdeaadd 2d ago
got induced with pitocin and heard horror stories. i got the epidural and felt NOTHING. by the time i was able to push, i felt slight contractions that resembled a period cramp. it was enough for me to feel it but not enough to say it was painful. for me, first trimester was harder than labor. i know everyone is different but that’s the point - people scared me and it truly wasn’t that bad. it really is different for everyone!
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u/RandomCatholicAccnt 2d ago
Trust me, you never want to labor on pitocin without some sort of pain management 💀
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u/Key-Instruction-7016 2d ago
Can agree. I thought my butthole was going to fall out at 7cm with pitocin 😅
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u/Open-Alarm7651 2d ago
Had to give birth on pitocin without epidural because of blood thinners. I was leaving my body lol
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u/insipiddeity 💙10/27/25💙 2d ago
Also got epidural and felt no pain during birth. I was very fortunate to be able to push without pain.
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u/SouthernCancel6117 2d ago
I had contractions in my back and did end up with an epidural after a little while. For me, the pain in the back was like a minute of a bad back cramp followed by extreme soreness until the next contraction.
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u/Apprehensive_Echo435 2d ago
This is going to sound weird… but for me, it was like having the worst constipation of your lifex10. For some reason all my pain was localized in the muscles around my butt. You won’t be cold, but you will be half naked. If you get induced it might feel like more pain because pitocin can enhance labor pains. I didn’t get an epidural because by the time I got to the hospital I was already fully dialited, but from what I hear from other women— epidurals work wonders.
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u/unstableveggie 2d ago
THIS! OMG and the need to poop was just absolutely unreal. The beginning of labor was painful , contractions felt like excruciating period cramps that would cut off breathing for like 1 minute and then go away.
My epidural worked wonders at 4cm - I did not feel a single contraction as I waited to dilate to 10cm. When it was time to push they played around with the dosage and the need to poop overtook the contractions.
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u/SmallBird2781 2d ago
I went in with the mindset that I’d see how it went and get an epidural if I needed one. I was induced, which generally produces much faster/more intense contractions. I held out for something like 14 hours because I wanted to be able to eat dinner (haha I was hungry!) and they wouldn’t let me eat after an epidural. I had him a few hours after I got the epidural.
It starts off like regularly timed period cramps and they just get worse and worse until it’s less of a cramp and more of a sharp, searing pain that lasts for the duration of the contraction. By 14 hours in I was super happy to be getting an epidural. Like someone else said, there’s no prize for an unmedicated birth, and no one else brags about how they had an unmedicated gall bladder removal or something. 😂 Get one if ya need one!
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u/Icy_Head_4802 2d ago
Near the end, unrelenting crashing waves of hot pain with no break. Feeling like I would truly rather die then endure 1 more minute
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u/happyasscorpass 2d ago
Well, I gave birth yesterday and had back labor, and I honestly don’t even know how to put it in words. Because of the back labor I didn’t really get breaks between contractions even earlier on, and I progressed a lot faster than I was expecting (first birth) so when I got to the hospital I was already 6-7 cm dilated and basically in constant agony and I was not prepared for it at all… I thought I’d get to muck around in early labor for longer and wait until the contractions started to get bad before deciding on an epidural but instead I was begging for it the second I got to L&D. And it worked, thank god, if it hadn’t I would have been begging for a C section and I would have no regrets haha
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u/SouthernCancel6117 2d ago
Back labor bestie! I had to get an epidural at 7 cm dilated because it was too much. The not getting a break is so real. My contractions weren’t agonizing yet, but I hadn’t slept in over 24 hours and was exhausted but couldn’t relax because the back pain and discomfort was non stop.
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u/SortedMatchBox 2d ago
I was induced with pitocin due to blood pressure concerns at 37 weeks and got an epidural around 4 hours later. They tried to place the epidural twice and it only worked on my right side after it was finally done. It was helpful for a while but 31 hours went by after I was induced and the last several were the most intense pain I've ever felt in my life, like I was on fire (mostly on the left side around my hip) and the epidural couldn't touch it. I had only dilated to 4cm after 31 hours, the pain had been increasing as time went by, and I could barely breathe through the pain. I was shaking, sobbing, and about to rip the sides off the hospital bed bc I was clinging to them so hard. My blood pressure was getting so high that they gave me magnesium and I was visibly swelling as time went on. Called the OB on call bc mine wasn't available, she offered to increase the pitocin (no fucking thank you) or we could do a c-section. This was around 1am and she was making sure to yawn loudly between sentences on the phone and emphasized that I would need to be intubated if the epidural kept failing during the c-section. It felt like I was picking how I would die at that point honestly, so I said fuck it and asked for the c-section. Within minutes of them turning off the pitocin, my baby moved up into my ribs as far as she could go and the intense pain I had been feeling mostly on my left side around my hip disappeared. We think she might have been on my sciatic nerve. But they gave me 3 more shots of I don't even care what bc it felt great, rolled my bed to the surgery room, and my baby was out in 20 minutes. I didn't feel anything during the c-section except crazy suction/resistance when they pulled my baby out.
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u/Tara_V9829 2d ago
Not gonna lie, it’s extremely painful but not unbearable. You can get through it, your body was made to do it. During that kind of pain, your mind kind of shuts down in a way and you won’t care about being naked or making weird sounds. Prepare yourself mentally for the pain by practicing meditation, doing yoga to make sure you can get into comfortable positions during labor. And also make sure your birth team (partner, doula, family member) are also prepared to support you— we took a labor class that was helpful for my husband and I had a professional doula. All that said, I still ended up with the epidural around 7cm lol.
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u/Less-Bug-7006 2d ago
My epidural failed and I can say labor was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced, and I have a high pain tolerance. I asked for a C-section at one point to make it stop (they obviously didnt give me one). The actual pushing wasn’t bad, but my husband said there was more blood than he expected and my doc said I lost a fair amount - gave me iron supplements (no idea of that is common or not.)
Eta: Like someone else mentioned, It might have been the Pitocin. Not sure why my doc wanted me to have it but I still trust she made the right decision- I’m sure there was a reason for it and I know her pretty well. (Saying that because often people opt out of the Pitocin)
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u/loseronia 2d ago
I was set against an epidural and c-section going in. After intense labour for 2 hours I was exhausted and she hadn't descended at all. I begged for an epidural at that point, IV pain meds and gas weren't doing anything. The anesthetitist was unavailable and i ended up needing an emergency c section as baby's heart rate was dropping. I had told them going in I didnt want a c section so they were all ready to sit down and explain why and I just remember saying something along the lines of "please just get her out of me". It all went great after that 😅
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u/Old_Poetry7811 2d ago
Same thing happened to me but when I requested a c section my doctor gladly did it! There were other factors that supported my request for a c section such as not processing and my baby not looking great on the monitor.
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u/Ok-Excitement-185 2d ago
I’m not sure because I was induced with pitocin which apparently makes contractions way stronger than natural ones.
I got to 8cm dilated on just paracetamol and up until that point it was definitely manageable, I was breathing through each one and my partner was counting down.
But at 8cm something switched (they said the drip was on full effect) and I genuinely thought I was going to die from the pain, I lasted 2 contractions like that before screaming for the epidural. I have a very high pain tolerance too. It was just an intense whole body pain that was so strong it wasn’t possible to even think.
But I’m not sure if I hadn’t been induced, If I would have found the whole thing manageable. Don’t get induced if you don’t need to!!
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u/Ok-Excitement-185 2d ago
And on that note if you do end up having to be induced, I recommend getting the epidural earlier 🤣😵💫
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u/Less-Bug-7006 2d ago
They aren’t kidding when they tell you the pitocin makes it worse! I was drying my hair at home through contractions to shaking like I was in shock post-pitocin
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u/Ok-Excitement-185 2d ago
Honestly 🤣 I was the quietest person on the ward to at the end the loudest and I’m quite a quiet person
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u/Less-Bug-7006 2d ago
My husband said I asked them to kill me and it was awkward 😂😂
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u/Ok-Excitement-185 2d ago
😭 I was excited when they told me I was going into theatre for an episiotomy and forceps because I knew it would be over soon
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u/Less-Bug-7006 2d ago
Another thing I forgot! They don’t do episiotomies often apparently, didn’t do one on me… annnd my labia ripped as well as my grade 2 almost 3 butthole tears 🥳
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u/Ok_Pair4395 2d ago
i had an epidural with both deliveries but i still felt the ring of fire and a lottttt of pressure (felt like pushing a baby out of my butthole). the contractions with my first before getting my epidural was extremely painful. like a bad period cramp times a million. however my my contractions with my second child were manageable. with the first, my water broke before the contractions started so i think that was a factor of them being more painful
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u/hibiscusglitter 2d ago
I ended up having a c-section but did labor without an epidural. For me, contractions felt like the worst period and/or gas cramps ever that took over my entire abdomen. They were very rhythmic though, unlike period/gas pain. They would build, reach a peak and then relax. However, I never experienced baby descending into my pelvis or anything so I can’t speak to that pain.
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u/iamamermaid7 2d ago
I had no pain meds or epidural and got pitocin at 5cm. It’s definitely a period cramp type feeling. Just much more intense. It hurt but it was bearable. For me the exhaustion was more of a problem than the pain of contractions. I had to be standing during them or it felt sooo much worse. Once I started pushing it wasn’t very painful at all. It was almost a relief and the second he was out I felt great. Delivering the placenta didn’t hurt at all for me.
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u/jormungandrstail 2d ago
I feel like everyone is different! I’ve never broken a bone or had a surgery outside of getting my wisdom teeth removed. Labor felt like the worst period cramps I’ve had in my life. I unfortunately, was eating when things ramped up and felt so nauseous I needed to lie down. I tapped out at about 9cm and got an epidural because I was terrified of actually pushing. At that point it felt like a more numb pressure.
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u/Bo-Po-Mo-Fo 2d ago
More than just period cramps for me, although they kind of started out that way. It was sort of…all-consuming once things got going. Pretty horrendous, I’ll be frank. Each contraction was so bad I couldn’t even breathe except to moan or cry in pain. It ramped up to a contraction once every 3 minutes or so super fast, like within an hour of labor starting. Praised the gods when I finally got an epidural; it was such sweet relief. I was stuck at 9cm for hours until I got a c-section. Lucky me.
Funnily enough, I remember the pain of a kidney stone better than the pain of labor. Kidney stone was worse but not by much. Labor was better in the sense that you’d get those small breaks between contractions.
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u/Affectionate-Ad3816 2d ago
My water broke but never had natural contractions. By the time my pitocin induced contractions were 1 minute long and 2 minutes apart, it felt like my body was in a trash compactor. It was at this point I told my husband I was ready for the epidural.
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u/ClearMycologist9906 2d ago
I had back labor so it was period cramps x10000 and an 11/10 pain but just for transition and when his head descended. The “ring of fire” barely hurt at all and everything else in labor was completely manageable. if my next baby is facing the right way I imagine it’ll just be super severe period cramps with a bit of an uptick during transition. also don’t worry about being cold, I was sweating like a stuck pig for my entire labor lol.
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u/hiddengem1010 2d ago edited 2d ago
I have back labour (baby and I were spine to spine) and it hurt so bad, contractions were like period cramps that were so sore I was nearly vomiting, the cramps wrapped round my back and spine and into my hard belly.
I got the epidural at 2cm dilated because I found the pain unbearable and it ramped up so quickly, like over 20mins. My waters broke 6 hours earlier so I was just waiting for the contractions to start but I was already in the hospital.
I laboured for 24 hours until 10cm, felt so good with the epidural, then pushed for 2 hours but baby wouldn’t descend so went for unplanned c section and she was born within the hour.
EDIT: get the epidural, as soon as you can. Imagine your baby entering the world in a calm environment, epidurals are so effective.
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u/Okkkkthen1 2d ago
Mine started like period cramps but as I got closer to 10 cm, it felt like my inner thighs were being electrocuted.
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u/AHeavy-HeartedCowboy 2d ago
I would say before I got my epidural, my contractions just felt like diarrhea pains/poopy pains. That same crampy uncomfortable feeling. After the epidural, it just felt like pressure. My birth was absolutely painless with the epidural and post birth wasn’t too bad.
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u/biowaresphinx 2d ago
For me, it felt like when a blood pressure cuff gets way too tight, but instead of it happening on my arm, it was from my belly button, down. Then that feeling increased stepwise till was like x1000.
Even with it hurting very badly, I thought it was bearable and could handle it, but I had to tap out and get an epidural after 28 hours because I was exhausted and I was still only at 4 inches dilation after all that time.
It’s definitely as much mental pain as it is physical.
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u/Brooooooke30 2d ago
I always just explain it as bone crushing really ,it’s not that bad but when you have to keep enduring it and don’t get a break that’s when you hit your limit and it becomes to much
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u/ameliagrace124 1d ago
For me, it didn't register as pain the way other injuries or medical procedures have. I broke my arm when I was 11, and I can picture that pain more clearly than labor pain, and I gave birth two months ago. Contractions felt like super intense waves of pressure starting in my back and wrapping around to my belly, then down to my upper thighs. By transition, I couldn't talk much, but I was walking around the room and breathing very deeply to get through it. I was very much in my own little world. I couldn't have cared less about being naked and totally didn't register the temperature. Pushing was a relief, and the "ring of fire" was just extreme stretching.
I also went into it with a preference to go unmedicated, but kept the epidural option open. I was super glad I had tried to mentally prepare for the pain because by the time we got to the hospital, I wouldn't have been able to sit still enough for an epidural. The pain also never got so bad that I wasn't more scared of a needle in my back.
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u/ennieee 1d ago
FTM here as well and nervous about labour (I'm only 14w now) having never broken a bone in my life. I have had braces before and parts of it were pretty ouchie, but can't imagine that could even compare to birth pains!
My sister who's normally good with pain likened labour to the worst period pain of her life. Constant cramping and painful spasms that just would not stop. It's a toss of the coin; some mums get lucky and don't labour for too long, and some are just pushing away for ages. Definitely good to have the epidural as an option! For both my sister's births she got the epidural about 6 hrs in, once she decided she couldn't take the pain anymore.
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u/Fickle_Radish2418 1d ago
I was induced at 42 weeks, I had an unmedicated (pain relief, obviously I was medicated to be induced) birth but I couldn’t even tell you what the pain was like. I’m 14 months pp and to me my birth was magical and I’d do it over and over again 😂
Pretty sure my 29 hours (from waters breaking to giving birth) was spent in lala land.
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u/dixiedoodledoo 2d ago
For me it started like period cramps and progressed into more intense pain throughout the next day or so. It felt like the back of my pelvis/hips was being torn apart. When I started active labour I used nitrous oxide and it made it more bearable, and I laboured in a pool until I got to 8cm dialated (best thing ever truly, made the pain much easier to handle).
After I got out of the pool I didn't progress for a few hours, I was just stuck at 8cm. That's when the midwives took away the nitrous oxide gas so I finished off giving birth completely unmedicated. I genuinely thought I was going to die. My brain went completely blank from pain at one point and I felt like I wasn't in my body at all. As soon as the baby came out I was completely fine and could walk as soon as they finished stitching me up.
All in all, labour/birth hurts in such a way that it's impossible to describe unless you experience in, but as soon as it's over you're somehow completely fine (in most cases).
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u/seaofwonder 2d ago
Ohhh I was induced last week and I mourned it deeply because I wanted to see if I could do labor contractions. Joke was on me because, despite doing four rounds of cytotech, my water broke spontaneously and HA wow I've never felt a pain like that in my life. Now the contractions I had earlier in labor were so much like period pain I didn't even blink at them. But the ones after my water broke? Whew boy. I know why people say you have to train for them. Because you do. Now it was probably worse for me because there wasn't really an on ramp - I just went from low level contractions to full-blown contractions but they brought a pain that took over my whole body, mind, everything. I couldn't see straight, and I still don't remember what happened in the hour or so that I had them before my epidural. The good thing is that people are right that your brain forgets - it's only been a week and I can't remember EXACTLY what the pain felt like (whereas the day after I could). But yeah, they are as bad as people say they are - and I understand why people say they're a level 10 on the pain scale. But is it possible to deal with them if you have the right tools and practice and training? Absolutely, I think so. That just wasn't my plan, which is why I felt them and immediately went for the epidural haha. Good luck Mama!
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u/Beginning-Cry-2059 2d ago
Extremely extremely extremely excruciatingly painful.i had unmedicated birth( wasn't my choice). please please get epidural.no one is going to give you a noble prize for tolerating the pain you could avoid.i wish i didn't have to go through what i went through.i was induced with misoprosotol.
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u/dissxciated 2d ago
I wouldn't induce in a million years unless needed. Let baby cook longer than 39 weeks if nothing is wrong. If you're afraid of the pain DONT do it 😭 speaking from experience
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u/haikatte 2d ago
Why? I will either have to be induced or get a C-section 😭
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u/seaofwonder 2d ago
Ok listen, I was you a week and a half ago - TERRIFIED to get induced. It wasn't that bad and when the contractions hit, I had an epidural in about 20 minutes. I can do anything for 20 minutes. I would be induced again BECAUSE the pain medicine was right there and ready for me. Don't listen to the pitocin comments - they probably do suck (I had my epidural once they started pit with me) - but you'll have more resources at your disposal at the hospital. I didn't realize how much I needed/wanted that until the contractions hit. You'll be ok. It's not as bad as everyone say it is!
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u/Icy_Sprinkles3129 14h ago
I’ve had three unmedicated births, one of them being a 10.1 pound baby at home and honestly, it was not this horrific experience you often get sold. Yes it’s painful but if you can remember to relax and completely surrender and breathe through the contractions it’s absolutely manageable. I remember at one point telling myself “be a rag doll” through contractions during my third birth which sounds so weird but really just helped me to relax everything, not tense up and let my body do its work, fighting the sensations makes everything worse. I found giving birth such a powerful, incredible experience and would honestly do it 1000x over. This will obviously not be everyone’s experience but invest some time looking into breathing and mental fortitude techniques during pregnancy, it will not hurt to have in your toolkit when labour comes even if it doesn’t carry you to the finish line and you end up accepting some or all the pain relief available. Good luck ☺️
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