How painful are the real labor contractions?

Question

How painful are the real labor contractions?

Answer 1

They will definitely get your attention. It's like your insides are being ripped out.  

Answer 2

Really painful.  Labor will permanently widen a woman's hipbones...try to imagine someone pushing hard enough on your hips that they  move out of place forever!

Answer 3

depends if how much pain u can take when baby's near to coming out the pain gets very intense like u cant take them any more

Answer 4

omg all those answers completely freaked me out!

Answer 5

once they start to really kick in it's bad enough to make you want to vomit.

Answer 6

They feel like very strong very concentrated menstrual cramps.  Every woman will rate them differently depending on their pain tolerance.  For me I'd class them as a 6 on a scale between 1 and 10  it hurts more when the baby is coming out.  They do have many wonderful ways to help a woman cope though if the pain becomes unbearable

Answer 7

Ever wonder what it would be like if you squeeze a watermelon out of an opening the size of a lemon?  Plus you get nice back pains.  Believe me when I say it is not a walk in the park.  Drugs me please!

Answer 8

They are definitely the kind of pain that's hard to describe. Imagine period pains that swell to be so painful that you can barely catch your breath, and then imagine them coming in waves of every minute or so. Not fun...Then you forget all about them once the baby is born only to remember again when you go into labour with your next child lol!!!

Answer 9

shocking

i was in after shock for a good 8 months

~MeL~

Answer 10

I found that the contractions weren't all that painful. For me it wasn't until my cervix really started to dilate that I had very much pain.

Answer 11

ever had your v****a stretched out so bad you can fit a door in their?

Answer 12

you will want to rip your eyeballs out

Answer 13

ever punch yourself repeatedly in the face?

lol jk im a guy, couldnt tell you.

Answer 14

  They are about 10x worse than period cramps, or the pain you get after having your toncils removed.

Answer 15

the best way i can describe it is, You know when you are sick and you have the gas and stomach pains that usually come before a good case of diarrea?  the ones where your doubled over in pain? now double or triple it.  The pain goes on for hours and the only way to relieve it is to give birth.  At least with the diarrea pain it goes away quicker.