by banned » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:31 am
...I guess it's a good thing I've never had kids. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>As it happens, moaning, at least, has been found to be a physiological way of decreasing pain. That's, er, why people in pain moan.<br><br>I have read...read, mind you, like I said I have no first hand experience...that if someone is prepared for childbirth, relaxed (hard to do in a brightly lit hospital OR with masked people milling about), and in the proper position (squatting, not lying on their back as in hospital births), it's not supposed to be too bad. Unless there are complications, of course.<br><br>Now, again, what constitutes 'too bad' is an individual matter. My dad had a 12 cm ulcer and his only symptom was occasional burping--his doctor said he had to have had amazing pain tolerance.<br><br>All I know is if I WAS giving birth and my husband started telling me to stuff a sock in it, I'd kick him so hard in the nuts they'd hear him scream in the next state. If men had to go through childbirth humans would be as extinct as dodos and passenger pigeons.<br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>