Bey told Vogue this interesting take on giving birth to her daughter Blue Ivy:

"I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like, when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain. We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication."

In her new Netflix documentary film, Homecoming, Beyoncé discusses the struggles she endured carrying her twins, Rumi and Sir Carter, explaining that she developed preeclampsia (same as Kim Kardashian while pregnant with North West) that threatened the health of the children. She also details the difficult delivery:

“In the womb, one of my babies’ hearts paused a few times so I had to get an emergency C-section,” she said.

“And you know, a lot of the choreography is about feeling, so it’s not as technical, it’s your own personality that brings it to life. That’s hard when you don’t feel like yourself,” Beyoncé confessed. “I had to rebuild my body from cut muscles. It took me a while to feel confident enough to … give my own personality.

“In the beginning, there were so many muscle spasms and just internally, my body was not connected. My mind was not there. My mind wanted to be with my children,” she continued. “What people don’t see is the sacrifice.

“It’s my first time home back home on the stage after giving birth; I’m creating my own homecoming, and it’s hard,” Beyoncé also said. “There were days that I thought I’d never be the same. I’d never be the same physically, my strength and endurance would never be the same.”

The mom of three, who suffered from a condition called placenta accreta with her two pregnancies, opened up and shared this on her blog from her experience giving birth to North West: 

"We induced my labor, and I had North soon after. Right after delivery, the placenta usually then comes out. Mine did not. My placenta stayed attached inside my uterus, which is a condition called placenta accreta. This is a high-risk condition that happens when the placenta grows too deeply into the uterine wall .... My doctor had to stick his entire arm in me and detach the placenta with his hand, scraping it away from my uterus with his fingernails.

"How disgusting and painful!!! My mom was crying; she had never seen anything like this before. My delivery was fairly easy, but then going through that -- it was the most painful experience of my life! They gave me a second epidural but we were racing against time, so I just had to deal .... I'm so thankful that my doctor was able to catch this and address the issue immediately."

The singer gave birth to her son, David, back in 2009 via C-section and told People about it:

"Everybody told me how much it was going to hurt afterwards, but I think I have a different tolerance for pain than others," she shared. "By that night after I had the baby, I'm like, 'Look, I can't sit in this bed anymore. I've got to get up!'

"I've been up and about since he was born. To me, the pain is no different than when you work out a muscle you've never worked out before and it's sore."

The singer told the Sun back in 2012 about giving birth to her son Egypt: 

"I mean it was painful, hell yeah. You have to scream, unless you're totally drugged and, hell, I screamed. But I followed this particular technique which banishes negative thoughts. So instead of calling it a contraction, it's a surge.

"And I think words like that are pretty powerful. ... So it hurt, but I think I received it a little better and I can say I really enjoyed it. It's not like anything I've ever done and I think it'll be better the second time. It must be. But as everyone says, it was worth it. It was bliss and a real miracle to be part of... And I really believe that (a) new day started the day Egypt came into this world."