Was (3) written by a man, perchance? Because the one sensation I didn't feel either time I gave birth was an igniparous one. Stretching, yeah. (TMI, no doubt.)
Though I swear that a Marching Band dressed in burgundy silk marched through the room when I was producing Offspring no 2 - it was the gas'n'air that did it of course, but I betcha there's no word that means 'happy hallucinations when experiencing childbirth.' If it happened to men, of course, there'd be an entire bleedin' Dictionary of metaphors and similes!
But 'igniparous' is a very good word! Igniparous. It sounds tremendous.
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Date: 2009-02-12 10:37 pm (UTC)Though I swear that a Marching Band dressed in burgundy silk marched through the room when I was producing Offspring no 2 - it was the gas'n'air that did it of course, but I betcha there's no word that means 'happy hallucinations when experiencing childbirth.' If it happened to men, of course, there'd be an entire bleedin' Dictionary of metaphors and similes!
But 'igniparous' is a very good word! Igniparous. It sounds tremendous.