2006-11-17 14:27:03 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Yes.
Why? The better question is why not.
As my mother told me "don't be a hero".
2006-11-17 14:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by ezgoin92 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I didn't for either of my two children. I'm not crazy about putting drugs into me when I don't need to. For the first birth I was induced and labor was hard and fast. Not really fun, but the adrenaline kept me going. I had a fabulous nurse that reminded me that the end was in sight, and she knew that I wanted to do things naturally. Second baby went really, really well. No need for anything. Some tips to make things go easier might be to give birth (or at least a lot of the pushing) in a couple of different positions. Kneeling on the bed upright with your hands on someone's shoulders or a bar works well, sitting on a toilet is great, and on your hands and knees is wonderful. On hands and knees is how I had the second baby, and that was great and put little stress on my body and the baby's way out was open. Also a low moaning makes you feel better. Don't scream. This naturally tenses you up. I also like to be doing things 100%. If I'm going to have a baby, then I want to be experiencing all of having the baby. It is exhilerating to persevere!!! Also, a warm wet cloth pressed up against your bottom in between contractions lessens the pressure.
2006-11-17 22:42:15 · answer #2 · answered by crunkestbeatisGods 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did have an epidural during labour because they gave me Pitocin.
Once the Pitocin kicked in it was terrible. The contractions didn't have a resting time between them. And they were lasting 12 minutes or more a piece.
I think I could have done a natural birth (which was what I wanted to do) if I hadn't let them give me the Pitocin.
2006-11-17 22:37:08 · answer #3 · answered by manywarhoops 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I didn't. I didn't want to have one (first pregnancy/birth btw) because the hospital I gave birth at requires internal fetal monitoring and the thought of screwing a node into the top of my son's head disturbed me. When labor really got going, I had different ideas though. However, by the time I got to the hospital and we got my IV running and all that stuff, there really wasn't any time to give me an epidural--okay, they could have tried but it probably would not have done too much. From the time my water broke until I gave birth was about 3.5 hours and an hour of that I was at home.
2006-11-17 22:48:18 · answer #4 · answered by lori_a_esser 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wanted one, they tried 8 times and kept hitting bone, with freezing between each try, I looked like a road map of bruises down my back.
I had a back labour where all of my contractions stayed in my back. If my next pregnancy results in a labour going the same way I am going to just say forget it to the epidural.
2006-11-17 22:38:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES!! I was not going to I was going to be "tuff" but when the going got hard.....I went for the epidural..The pain was worse than I thought it would be and I was getting kind of MEAN!! I did not want to be like that..And my mom assured me "I had nothing to prove"...Now with my second I had to have the labor stopped so they could give penicillin for strep B..So they stopped labor with the epidural and started it back again 6 hours later..I can promise you my labor was a much more enjoyable experience with the epidural :-)
2006-11-17 22:43:32 · answer #6 · answered by Littlebit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I chose to have one and even asked for it well before my pains got bad. Unfortunately mine wore off and before the nurse anesethesis could come give me another dose I got to experience some really hard labor. I ended up having to have a c-section, not because of the epidural but because my son's head was too big!
2006-11-17 23:30:58 · answer #7 · answered by cj2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During my first pregnancy, I took Lamaze classes and was ready for "Natural Childbirth". After 22 hours of contractions every 5 minutes and other complications, I finally agreed to an epidural. 14 hours later, I had to have an emergency C-section. With my next two pregnancies, I asked for it way in advance and didn't even want to chance another 36 hours of labor.
2006-11-17 22:34:24 · answer #8 · answered by Lidya D 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO! Ugh many reasons. I will list them in the order that I discovered them:
1) Letting ANY doctor put a needle in my spine involves more trust than I have for any other human being.
2) It increases the chance of c-section, pitocin, forcepts and tonnes of other things I would rather avoid.
3) I wanted to give birth at home
4) Labour and delivery really weren't painful. (Tiring, sure. But not painful. ) -- Oh and I had back labour too--three days of "prelabour" (hurt as much as real labour) to turn silly sunny side up baby. Try www.spinningbabies.com and chiropractic care to help prevent malpositioning http://www.icpa4kids.org/
2006-11-17 22:33:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, but i had what you call an intrathecal. Similar, but you are able to walk around with this and it's just 1 or 2 shots in the back. They did not do epidurals in the hospital I was in because of the increased complications and increased C-section risk. Did it hurt? Oh yeah... 24 hrs of labor, back labor to boot. Ouch!
2006-11-17 22:36:22 · answer #10 · answered by Jay Jay 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I did not and did that 3 times. I was fortunate to not have very long hard labors. The really hard and painful labor lasted at most 2 hours or less. I didn't because I never have been a person to take even ibufrofen very often. I was also worried about the side effects that can happen in a small percentages of cases.
2006-11-17 22:31:35 · answer #11 · answered by schell_75 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋