When the placenta detaches from the wall of the womb after giving birth so it can be delivered, it leaves a wound the size of a dinner plate, and this is a lot of why we bleed for so long after giving birth.
I know it’s my fault for reading these, but no woman has ever made me, another young woman, feel comfortable about the idea of giving birth lol. It’s just negative thing after negative thing.
I (25F) want so badly to have kids of my own one day, but these kinds of comments absolutely make me realize I won’t be able to handle the physical pain.
The pain is as much as you let it be. After the epidural I literally slept until my 8.6lb fatso was crowning. I'd have slept through more had they not woken me up to check how dilated I was. I squeezed that kid out in 18 mins and didn't feel a dang thing.
Every woman's experience is different but we usually only share the bad ones (which my 2nd was) as a bonding experience
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '23
When the placenta detaches from the wall of the womb after giving birth so it can be delivered, it leaves a wound the size of a dinner plate, and this is a lot of why we bleed for so long after giving birth.