Epidural or natural ?

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I was just wondering how your experience went w/ an epidural ? Do you wish you delivered naturally or did you enjoy your experience ?

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I had an epidural. It delayed the progress of the delivery but it kept me from feeling the pain of the contractions for the most part. Only bad thing for me was my doc made me wait untill it wore off to push. So I was at 10cm for a good 20 min waiting to push bc she wanted me to know when to push without just the monitor. Sucky but it worked. Less then 10 pushes (20min) of active labor and my beautiful baby girl came out healthy and perfect. I will be getting an epidural again. No shame in it. The baby is safe and it relieves pain! Btw I had back labor which was unbareable until the epidural.

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I had an epidural and was the happiest person in the hospital! lol no regrets. I plan on doing the same for this pregnancy!

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I went natural with my baby. It hurt, but I'm glad I did. I just kept telling myself it was good pain. Since most people associate pain as being bad. (I read it in a blog before :)  ) it honestly wasn't as bad as I was anticipating.  I did get sick with each intense contracrion once i was almost ready to push, but that passed after a few contractions. I was also able to grt into whatever position i felt most comfortable in while pushing which made pushing so much easier. I liked that I was able to get up and move around after I had her. It was also good since she had to go to a nicu  45 minutes away so my doctor was able to discharge me as soon as they sent her off. He told me had I gotten en epidural I wouldn't have been able to leave
 And that happened to my friend. She had to stay behind while her son went to the nicu since she had an epidural.

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I went 100% natural and medication free with my first two and plan to do the same with my third. What an amazing experience.

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My experience was okay the medicine worked really well on me couldn't feel anything when it came time to push. Just didn't like the feeling of not being able to feel my legs until the next day.

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I requested the epidural during labor at 5 cm. the nurse pumped my iv with some sort of medication with out telling me to "calm me down" even though I was perfectly calm and since I wasn't prepared to feel high as fuck I kinda slid down while she was giving me the epidural and she put it in crooked. So, the cath was more towards one side; meaning only one side of my body was numb, and it wasn't even numb all the way! I was still moving my legs! I was so upset bc I was hurting so much. I was more upset that the nurse didn't tell me she was pumping me with drugs when I told her at the start I didn't want anything unless I asked.

Epidural or natural ?

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