Okay ladies. With my first baby I had an epidural and it didn’t completely work so they had given me another dose. It caused me to not be able to feel when I needed to push and I ended up with a hematoma (due to baby’s head sitting and not knowing if I needed to push) and wasn’t able to walk until I left the hospital pretty much from being so out of it. My question is- besides an epidural is there any other sort of medication that will help with pain but won’t cause me my ability to not be able to walk around or feel when I need to push so I don’t wind up with the same thing happening? I felt absolutely horrible after having my son due to being so drugged up I wasn’t able to feel my legs/ was on a catheter and wasn’t able to shower. That was with no tearing or stitches. 🥵

Anyone willing to share their experiences with a natural birth/medicated birth without an epidural?