Abstract
ABSTRACT Taking labor pains in childbirth care in Germany as a case study, I develop a practice-based notion of experience. Labor pains are sociomaterial experiences and effected actors that are shared and “worked with.” Drawing on fieldwork, I show an extensive repertoire of possible interventions used to deal with, and to co-enact, continuously shifting actorships of labor pains in childbirth care. These actorships include helpful tools, unproductive sensations, effective work, fruitless investments, products of bodily tension, and pure labor pains. Experiences such as labor pains are not only passively known, felt and done but also take active part in shaping (childbirth care) practices.
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