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Re: casual research questionFrom: westsidebirthservice@juno.com ("westsidebirthservice@juno.com")Fri Jun 29 13:12:12 2007
I allege that labor pain is vastly different than any other pain we experience especially given that most other pain is chronic (post-surgical, disease process pain for instance) and labor pain is not. Except for the peak of a contraction, the pain is quite doable and then the peak is usually only 15 seconds (doable) and the inbetween contractions is, for the most part, pain free (of course back labor and labor that is not progressing normally--but these are the exceptions not the rule). I also think that since the first definition for pain is punishment in the English language then we are looking at labor through this negative lens. What if there were separate words for, say, psychological pain, post surgical pain, labor pain, chronic disease pain? Maybe women, men, doctors, anesthesiologists, nurses, social scientists and on and on would have a different take on the "pain" of labor and would approach it not as something to mask or take away but from a perspective of joyful acceptance. This is just another point of view about labor. Louana
I allege that labor pain is vastly different than any other pain we experience especially given that most other pain is chronic (post-surgical, disease process pain for instance) and labor pain is not. Except for the peak of a contraction, the pain is quite doable and then the peak is usually only 15 seconds (doable) and the inbetween contractions is, for the most part, pain free (of course back labor and labor that is not progressing normally--but these are the exceptions not the rule). I also think that since the first definition for pain is punishment in the English language then we are looking at labor through this negative lens. What if there were separate words for, say, psychological pain, post surgical pain, labor pain, chronic disease pain? Maybe women, men, doctors, anesthesiologists, nurses, social scientists and on and on would have a different take on the "pain" of labor and would approach it not as something to mask or take away but from a perspective of joyful acceptance. This is just another point of view about labor. Louana
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