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how bad does having a baby hurt with an epidural?
on a scale of 1-10 how bad does it hurts to give birth with an epidural?
do they really help?
thanks!
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As many have said it varies by how well the epidural "takes" and how it was placed.
With my daughter you could have stabbed me from the waist down, and I wouldn’t have known. My lower body was "dead". Though that also made it harder for me to push.
With my son, *my daugther was my first child, my son the second* I got a better placement, and could feel but not alot alot. I also had to change positions ALOT to get him to flip, and your epidural is affected by the postion you lay, it works with gravity. For example, my head of my bed was too low initially and the epidural was working to far UP my chest. When I had to flip to my right side, my right leg and side of my stomach were way number than my left. And vise versa.
In the case of my son though I was able to push far more effectively because I could feel more, and pushing through the pain helped. Though it hurt far more than with my daughter, if I could "pick" how my epidural worked, I’d do it that way again.
In both cases I labored quite awhile before getting the epidural and that pain was pretty much ten out of ten.
With my daughter once the epidural was in place I’d say 1 or two out of ten. With my son the pain was pretty bad, not nearly as bad as without the epidural so I’d say 5-6 out of ten?
Hope this helps.
If you have a good, effective epidural, it could be a 1-3. But it varies from woman to woman. It’s really not reasonable to expect birth to be 100% pain free.
It depends on your pain tolerance and how well the epidural works.
Generally, once the epidural is in place, there is little or no pain. But you will have to deal with several hours of labor before you can get the epidural, and that may hurt a lot (10 out of 10) or a little (1 out of 10.)
an epidural takes the pain completely away. You will be numb from the waste down.
0. I had no pain whatsoever with my epidural. When it was time for me to push, they said they were going to turn the epidural down so that I could feel to push. I said, "Do you really have to do that?" Then my midwife said that she would let me push with the epidural and see how I did. I got the baby out in 4 pushes! I couldn’t feel to push, but I tried as hard as I could so that they didn’t turn the thing off!
It actually doesn’t hurt at all. Once the epidural is applied there is no pain. Completely numb. Its the paid before the epidural is applied that will hurt. They dont apply it right away so there will still be birth pains you will have to deal with. It makes you completely numb though so expect problems afterwards with your legs and back where the epidural was done. You can feel sporatic pains years later.
I have gotten epidural with my two pregnancies and felt no pain at all the only thing is that now after a couple of years I some times do get some pain in my lower back when I sit or stand it goes away quick but its there,I don’t regret it because I could not take the pain during labor and I was able to relax and concentrate after I had the epidural.
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HURTS ALOT
It helps A LOT! You can still feel the contractions, but there is no pain — just a pressure. There are times that sometimes the epidural will only numb half of you though. Everyone is different on how good it works. For example, my first son it worked like a charm. My 2nd, it worked except for a bundle of nerves in my hip. I felt everything in that one tiny spot. The anesthesiologist though came back, and put something in my IV. As soon as I started pushing I went numb, and couldn’t feel that spot anymore. But I would say 99% of the time it does what it’s supposed to.
Also — I would wait until you are dilated to a 5. Once you get the epidural, you are bed ridden. Walking around, using the squat bar, and the birthing ball are out of the picture once you get it.
Good luck!
Depends how much is given to you and when it is given.
It’s going to hurt no matter what though.
For a lot of people it helps but I can only speak for myself when I say it didn’t. I got it at 6 cm. At 10cm, my son was still too high in the birth canal so I had to do squats on the bed. As I got up the epidural came out. I didn’t notice until my feet were tingling 20 minutes later. By the time I was really pushing, I felt it all. It was not worth it. I am planning on not using it again with this one for that reason.
I had an epidural and thought I would be completely pain-free. It stil hurt. I would say with the epidural the pain level was at 6.
They can’t give you the epidural until you are 4cm dilated. But it does help tremendously! I felt pressure when they were trying to get me to push (before they realized the baby wasn’t coming and gave me a c-section), but I didn’t feel much else. So yes, they do help.
I didn’t feel ANYTHING! (that is until after it wore off, after I had him) No pressure, nothing. It was great! They told me when to push, and yes, I could still push just fine. I only had to push 6 times and he was out.
I didn’t feel a thing other than some pressure. If you fear the pain then have one. It really does help.
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