“I imagine it would be similar to having a limb amputated without anesthetic,” another wrote.
“Like someone sticking an industrial powered hoover up your arse, and switching it on and off at increasing close intervals,” another woman wrote.
“Like being crushed in a vice but from the inside out,” one user described.
“Like shitting a portable telly,” another added. “Nothing else really describes it so well as this perfect quote from my (midwife) mate!”
“It felt like being crushed to death,” another mom wrote.
“I think there is or are points when most people think they might die aren’t there? That might sum it up neatly…,” one user added.
“I felt like my spine was being crushed to the point I thought it was going to snap,” another described.
“Mother nature was wise here because if we remembered the pain fully we would never do it again,” another wrote.