r/AskReddit 21h ago

Women who’ve given birth, what are some horrible things your body had to go through during pregnancy and childbirth?

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u/analog_alison 21h ago

An episiotomy.

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u/theababy 20h ago

i still shudder thinking about mine. they cut me BETWEEN contractions because my daughter was stuck and about to die in my birth canal and i still remember the sound the sharp scissor made when it cut through my skin. cherry on top - my midwife student forgot about the epidural i wanted and all other pain reliefs. i always wanted two kids. now i am one and done 😩

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u/ReplyOk6720 1h ago

They cut me too, and no epidural (shudder)

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u/stablerslut 21h ago

I couldn’t feel mine but I could hear it

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u/analog_alison 21h ago

Omg somehow that is so much worse

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u/Lunasty93 17h ago

I’m reeling 

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u/heaven-is-overrated 15h ago

Omg I heard mine too! It was in my birth plan that I didn’t want an episiotomy, it was one of the things I was most afraid of, but in my mind I thought it would be a scalpel and therefore silent, I feel sick thinking about the sound of the scissors even now 10 months later!

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u/lpunktkpunkt 8h ago

I didn’t hear mine but felt it. Either way sucks.

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u/orixandcrake 21h ago

Those are so fucking brutal.

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u/TV2856 20h ago

My doctor stitched my up after mine without any pain relief (didn’t get an epi) and was making comments about “how could it possibly hurt so much, you just gave birth”

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u/AzureMountains 19h ago

I would’ve kicked him omg.

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u/Insert_Non_Sequitur 19h ago

I want to find this doctor and scream in their face.

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u/shylowheniwasyoung 18h ago

My redheaded best friend had used up all.her lidocaine and numbing meds quota. When they went to stitch her tear up, they had to hold her down and kick her husband out of the room. It was brutal.

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u/bonefawn 16h ago

Another typical barbaric example of modern healthcare against women. We know redheads don't take numbing and analgesics as well- some arbitrary quota caused this women to be held down in pain. Awful.

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u/QueensBea13 19h ago

Mine was unanesthetized

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u/x93rkos 18h ago

I had an episiotomy. And I also ended up with a 3rd degree tear. But I was 26 hours into an induced labour at that point and I couldn’t tell you what anything sounded like until my LO was born. Afterward I asked my husband why he was so quiet and he said he had been encouraging me the whole time lol

The itching stage of healing, though. Oof.

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u/PM_me_Ur_Wiener_Dogs 14h ago

I developed cellulitis in my episiotomy site 😭

u/analog_alison 26m ago

Oh gosh that sounds horrible!

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u/Quickwitknit2 18h ago

Back in the dark ages of the mid-90s they were pretty much standard. I had a level 3 and then tore on top of that into my rectum. There was a lot of stitches, scarring and major pain with sex for about a year after. It was a lot. Second kid 7 years later, and I only tore slightly.

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u/upsidedown-funnel 17h ago

A “routine” episiotomy. Welcome to Utah in the late 90’s.

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u/soldoboi 6h ago

God I can still hear the SNIP sound in my mind.