Oh my, that's funny! Pain free? I guess if you think getting your skin and stomach muscles cut open to have a baby pulled out is pain free. That is the most ridiculous thing I've heard for some time. It may not hurt while they are doing it, but afterwards it definitely hurts. Not the mention the extreme amount of gas you get. Imagine having horrible gas, but not being able to use your stomach muscles to get it out. It hurts to laugh, cough, walk, and just about everything that takes stomach muscles.. Which is quite a lot of stuff. All I have to say is thank god for percocet and mylicon.

I went through 10 hours of labor and a c-section with Ethan and a c-section with Alex. I can assure you that labor is definitely a better route to go.

well i guess, the c-section itself is pain free since ur numbed and all.. but the recovery??? HA! I've never hurt so much in my LIFE.

well compared to a vaginal birth a c-section dont hurt as bad to me.

Do you mean the actual c-section or afterwards? I wouldn't really know about a vaginal birth, I had to have a c-section before the pushing part started. I imagine it must hurt pretty badly to push a baby out. C-section recovery sucks though.

afterwards. with my vaginal births it was weeks before i felt better. my c-section a couple of days and i was fine.

I wish I was that lucky!

BTW I love your avatar I've never actually read it until now..

My mum has had both, she always says a c-section was much better. I can definately see why! Like chase, it took me weeks to recover from my vaginal delivery.

For most people it takes weeks to recover from a c-section.

After my first section I was extremely sore. I labored for some time and then they took my daughter by emergency c-section.
My second c-section was planned and the recovery was much better. I was walking around by myself that day. I was shopping in Walmart 3 days after. I wasn't running around by any means and the stairs were a bit of a pain, but all in all I didn't think the recovery was that bad. Of course the Percocets helped. What I didn't like was I was extremely itchy all over my body after my 2nd section. I think it was the morphine?

I didn't deliver vaginally, so I have no idea what that is like.

I had my first child vaginally and my second via c section. I went into full blown labor with my second and then had a c section. I heard that the recovery is worse when you first go into labor and then have a c section. The recovery was horrible for me. I couldn't even move for a few days. I was able to get up and walk around the same day with the vaginal birth.

I think my 2nd section was as bad as the first, but that might be because I had to pick Ethan up and carry him around.

My labor was awful.. Almost 30 hours of labor, & 3 hours of hard pushing.. I got cut 3 times, & Gabe was turned the wrong way & it was hard for him to come outta there.. & I felt almost 100% healed after about a week.

I don't think I'd ever want to have a C-Section.

I labored before I had my c-section and the surgery itself wasn't painful, but recovery was. It wasn't terrible (that you Percocet) but it definitely wasn't pain free.

The afternoon after Gabe was born, the nurse came in & gave me some Percocet, but she didn't tell me what it was, & she gave me 2 of them, & I hadn't eaten for literally 2 days.. I FELT SO SICK. But hey, at least it killed the pain!

Ugh.....I got sick while I was laboring from the medicines in the IV. It was not cool. Then I got sick after my c-section while in recovery. She handed me this tiny tiny bedpan. Yeah right lady, I need a real bucket! Thankfully the pain medication hadn't worn off at that point! I didn't finish my Percocet. I think I still have the bottle of them in the medicine cabinet.