Thank you for sharing your story on the perception of pain after the birth of your daughter. Mine was not the same, due to complications I had an emergency C-section, but a healthy baby girl. I too breast fed so only Tylenol for me, which felt like a placebo to me due to not helping with my pain at all.
I went home, unable to lift my daughter due to surgery restrictions, but my husband helped with everything I couldn’t do. The pain though was rather intense, even when I held my baby. The pain process is a bottom- up process due to the stimulus receptors in the skin. The receptors are called nociceptors which kept a steady throbbing pain at the incision location. I do think that my brain started to send out endorphins for the pain and I was out of pain quickly. Though after reading your perception maybe holding the baby did make the pain go away faster. (Goldstein, 2014)
Yearly, we regal my daughter on how she tried to kill herself and me on her birthday. We laugh about it now that it’s many years later, and I still have a healthy daughter. Pain though is a place I think that more research could be done. Even all these years later, I can still get a twinge of pain from my C-section scar, but that starts a whole different conversation.
References
Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience (4th Edition). Cengage Limited. In E. B. Goldstein, Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience (4th Edition). Cengage Limited. (p. 61). Cengage Limited.
Thank you for sharing your story on the perception of pain after the birth of your daughter. Mine was not the same, due to complications I had an emergency C-section, but a healthy baby girl. I too breast fed so only Tylenol for me, which felt like a placebo to me due to not helping with my pain at all.
I went home, unable to lift my daughter due to surgery restrictions, but my husband helped with everything I couldn’t do. The pain though was rather intense, even when I held my baby. The pain process is a bottom- up process due to the stimulus receptors in the skin. The receptors are called nociceptors which kept a steady throbbing pain at the incision location. I do think that my brain started to send out endorphins for the pain and I was out of pain quickly. Though after reading your perception maybe holding the baby did make the pain go away faster. (Goldstein, 2014)
Yearly, we regal my daughter on how she tried to kill herself and me on her birthday. We laugh about it now that it’s many years later, and I still have a healthy daughter. Pain though is a place I think that more research could be done. Even all these years later, I can still get a twinge of pain from my C-section scar, but that starts a whole different conversation.
References
Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience (4th Edition). Cengage Limited. In E. B. Goldstein, Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience (4th Edition). Cengage Limited. (p. 61). Cengage Limited.