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sugarski|1441220197|3922740 said:ericad|1441210047|3922656 said:momhappy|1441209684|3922654 said:^epidurals aren't necessarily supposed to take away all of the pain. Each medical facility can utilize their own "cocktail" of drugs, so while one epidural might take away almost all of the pain, another one might just take the edge off (like the one that I had). I still felt a considerable amount of pain with my epidural, but the pain was tolerable and allowed me to be human and focus on the task at hand (as opposed to my non-epidural experience where it was pretty much all a blur because I couldn't function due to the pain).
Childbirth is intensely personal. I would advocate that each woman does what's best for her. I don't think that there is some "badge of honor" that should be associated with birthing a child drug-free - if a woman chooses to go that route, fabulous, but I don't think it minimizes any other birth experience.
That's possible, but the lady who did my epidural had to do it 3 or 4 times (I've blocked the memory) and complained that I had "very dense discs" lol, and while pushing I distinctly remember wanting to kill myself, my eyes frantically searching for an open window to throw myself out of - if a drug-free birth is even worse than that, I'm shocked that we haven't gone extinct lol. Around that time the nurse, and my husband, suggested that I was "pushing wrong" and so I killed them both.
There's a reason my daughter is an only child, lol.
EricaD, I don't know how to highlight just part of your quote, but the last few lines of this made me laugh very hard. And cry a little bit.