8 Things That Hurt Worse Than Childbirth

#1 Broken Bone

When a bone breaks it is called a fracture. There's more than one way to break or fracture a bone. A break can be anything from a hairline fracture (a thin break in the bone) to the bone that's snapped in two pieces like a broken tree branch.

Some women consider broken bones more painful than giving birth to a baby.

#2 Migraine Headache

Migraines are intense, sometimes debilitating headaches. The most common types of migraine are those with aura (classical migraines) and those without aura (common migraines).

A migraine is not a one-off pain. Several people experience it for days, and many have reported that it is an unrelenting pain. The pain will be accompanied by symptoms like light sensitivity, nausea, and vomiting. If you can carry out a day’s work in spite of it, you have some super endurance!

#3 Gallstones

Gallstones are small stones, usually made of cholesterol, that form in the gallbladder. In most cases they don't cause any symptoms and don't need to be treated.

Gallstones can take a long-term toll on you even if pain medications are administered and nutritional advice is sought. Those mothers who have birthed and also have had gallstones said that there could be no pain coming closer to that of gallstones.

#4 Kidney Stones

A kidney stone is a solid, pebble-like piece of material that can form in one or both of your kidneys when high levels of certain minerals are in your urine. Kidney stones rarely cause permanent damage if treated by a health care professional.​

Someone who had kidney stones thought that childbirth was easier than this problem. Some have said that they are equivalent, but one woman went as far as to say that kidney stones were as good as a man giving birth to a baby!

#5 Root Canal Treatment

Somehow dental pain and labor pain coincide. If you had a root canal work without pain relief, you might as well go the extra mile to have a baby without pain-relief! However, pain-relief methods in childbirth often don’t work adequately. But you cannot ignore the fact that a root canal work will have its after-effects in that you might not be able to deal with your regular chores.

#6 Bladder Infection

Bladder infections have managed to make it to the list. Some women have described the spiking pain as being ten times worse than having a baby.

#7 Surgery

Surgeries are surely more painful than vaginal birth. Yes, you are put under anesthesia at the time of surgery, and you feel no pain of incision. But the pain after the surgery could be pretty much more than a vaginal birth. Again, some surgeries are major, some are minor. A Cesarean section in itself could render heavy pain after the surgery. Thankfully you have the necessary pain-killers these days. On the other hand, you have deliveries that are more painful than others and vary on a case by case basis.

#8 Induced Labor

Natural labor builds up slowly, and you muster the patience and the courage to extolling pain of labor. But if it is an induced labor, your body is not given the chance to allow the labor to build up. The contractions are there for a reason. Most of the times interventions used in labor add to the pain by bridling the movement and causing fear.