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Phenicks
on April 25th, 2009
Experienced User
| aochriss wrote: |
| Phenicks wrote: | You're not a doctor are you? I was given an epidural while in labor, every woman has this option in US hospitals. I was told to lean forward and the nurse held me while the anesthiolgist gave me the epidural it came with a button to push to administer more medicine in case I felt more pain, they called it a "drip." I was actually in labor TRYING to give vaginal birth for a very long time before the c-section became necessary. The only thing that happened with the c-section was the anesthiologist gave me MORE of the epidural for the c-section in a bag that was hanging over my bed (not the IV saline solution bag). The epidural is placed in your spine and usually if you're really overweight there comes a problem but overall because of the way an epidural works it's typically effective.
Very few women opt for pain relief and it fails. Many more jsut don't get the pain relief in time, refuses it, or can't have it as more than half of the moms in the US DONT take an epidural. |
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What? Now I KNOW you never had a child!!! If you EVER had an epidural then you KNOW it pretty much PARALYZES you from the waist down you cannot feel ANYTHING if it is working properly. If you've ever had a baby and was conscious at ANY point during labor than you know that you start to feel pain during labor long before the baby even gets in the birth canal for MOST women, some are lucky enough not to feel pain without any anesthesia but those ar e a rare few. The rest of us people born with uterus(es) that they have actually used to give life KNOW that labor pains are unmistakable and start waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before crowning.
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