If this is your first time delivered a baby? Would you believe this?

I dont exactly know if that's true because women here in our place are discouraged to deliver the baby noisily because is annoys the doctor. Aside from that, I also learned in medical school that if you do it noisily then you are exerting a lot of effort already and there is a tendency that you will weaken and it will be difficult for you to deliver the baby. A woman should just take deep breaths when pain is coming because feeling the pain is the only way to deliver the baby normally. Some women also dont know how to push that's why doctors would have to decide on a c-section. When my sister-in-law delivered the baby, she also didnt know how to push even though her cervix was already open but the doctors have to perform a c-section because they baby's heartbeat already started to weaken. I think I can easily say these things because I haven't experienced delivering a baby yet. Maybe when I would deliver my first baby, I would forget all about this and would become noisy. But I really hope not.

Many old wive's tales, which is what this sounds like, can have some good advice in them. The advice to go through labor quietly, instead of screaming and thrashing about, actually does make the process a litle easier since your body is not releasing stress hormones and you're keeping your blood pressure from rising too high. The stress hormones cause the body to tense and, when you are in labor, you do not want the cervix to be tense. You need to try to be as relaxed as possible in order to help it dialate. Future deliveries are usually easier because the cervix has already dialated once so it's not as stiff.

That's just and old wives tale However I wasn't allowed to be "too noisy" by the doctor because she said it'd make me too tired to push. I think it does make sense. Anyways, I don't believe in old wives tale.

I've had two natural deliveries and both the times I did not use any medications to manage the pain. Yes, the pain is unbearable when the contractions come but with proper breathing techniques it is manageable. Yes, I did scream a bit but that is because when you shout you breathe out and that helps the muscles to relax, I was lucky to have my husband and a very very understanding mid wife around who was continuously massaging my back between contractions and helping me stay calm and focused on pushing when the contractions came. On the whole there is a bit of truth in what you have written. Being as calm as you can possibly be is better. In today's day and age if you cannot bear the pain there are so many medications available for you to choose from and you should talk to your doctor about them in advance.

Well I heard that in some countries they have to do that. But I dont believe in this. Child birth is something you shouldnt have to keep quiet about when you are in pain. When I was in labor I screamed and everything from the pain until I got this pain medicine, then I was numb from my stomach down to my toes. Then I didnt make a nosie.