im planning to have an epidural this coming delivery... and i have read alot of answers here yahoo answers about it.. what do you mean about "not feeling any pain? but only pressure?"
2006-12-29 18:58:09 · 12 answers · asked by SweetandCuddlyRai 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
You won't get the full meaning untill you actually have your baby and it is different for everyone. But you feel like you need to use the bathroom and you have the urge to push. All of this said I wouldn't plan a birth w/o an epidural.
2006-12-29 19:02:57 · answer #1 · answered by Wendy S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had an epidural with my son and it was sooo worth it.
You read on it so you basically know what the procedure does and how it is performed...
but the pressure thing...
well in my case I told my friend that I thought the epidural was wearing off or something. She got the nurse and they told me I was almost complete and went for the doctor. I didn't feel any pressure until late into my pushing. It was like wanting to have a bowel movement type pressure that you couldn't and didn't want to stop. Nothing painful but pressure from inside. Like everyone said it is hard to explain. My lamaze teacher explained the "pressure" thing best like this...."If you were on the toilet starting to have a bowel movement and someone walked into the bathroom and offered you a hundred dollars to stop your duties, could you do that, for a hundred dollars? Well, yes you could and most likely would. Now the pressure of having your baby will almost feel like having that bowel movement except that if that person was to walk into the hospital room and offer you a million dollars you would not be able to stop pushing."
I thought at the time heck I would stop for a million dollars. Nope, when that point in the pressure and pushing comes near the end your body simply won't let you stop.
2006-12-30 03:53:29 · answer #2 · answered by Eileen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to exlain, and everyone feels it a little differently. I had no pain, but pressure. You have to feel it, to understand it. The important thing is the pain is gone, but don't plan to get an epidural. If you can handle the pain without one it is better for you and your baby. if you find it's too much then get one.
2006-12-30 12:22:40 · answer #3 · answered by jarina h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A labor epidural blocks the sensations of heat,cold and pain but not touch or pressure.It usually makes your legs feel heavy and slightly weak but ideally (especially with the newer medications) you should be able to adequately push with the pressure sensations of your final contractions.
2006-12-30 06:46:56 · answer #4 · answered by samharveymd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are numb to the pain, like with Novocaine. The way I felt and excuse me for the crude speech but it felt like a BIG-HUGE BOWEL MOVEMENT!! The pressure down there was immense! And you push like your having a bowel movement. For me I could feel what was going on like the contractions but they didn't hurt and the delivery was like going #2, lots of pushing and pressure, with no pain. I went about 8hrs in alot of pain because my labor was induced and I wanted to do it naturally but but my husband couldn't satnd watching me in pain so he said "they induced the labor with drugs you might as well fight of the pain with drugs" so before the epidural it was 8hrs of pain and I had only dialated to 3cm after the epidural it was more relaxing and an hour later I was dialated to 7cm and I delivered 45min after that, pretty pain free, tiring, but pain free.
2006-12-30 03:46:53 · answer #5 · answered by joyofjoys 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive never had one, but i heard in first timers, it takes away the urge to push.
its complete pain relief from the injection site down. a catheter is left in the epidural (space between vertebrate) until after birth. this is so the doctors can add more meds.
2006-12-30 03:22:16 · answer #6 · answered by Brittainy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when they do the epidural, they inject an anaesthetic that blunts the pain sensors so that you feel no pain...there are other sensors, pressure, vibration, (pain), heat, cold...
the anaesthetic blunts the pain receptors, but the pressure receptors will still function...you will feel pressure but no pain...they will inject it so that your abdomen from just above the navel will be numb and everything south (to the toes)
good luck...
2006-12-30 03:09:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its kind of an unexplainable feeling. Like the numb the area with novacain but you can feel the pressure of them putting the needle in. Personally i was in far to much pain and my dr was amazing that I did not feel one ounce of pain at all.
2006-12-30 03:03:43 · answer #8 · answered by Heather 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when having a child the pain that goes through you, like when you had the first one. ( i assume this is your 2nd) since you said this coming delivery. well you won't feel that. pressure don't know.
2006-12-30 03:03:06 · answer #9 · answered by misty blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It feels like when your legs goes numb from seating too long and you try to walk on it you cant feel it but you can fell that pressure when you walk.Does that help?
2006-12-30 03:26:32 · answer #10 · answered by Paula 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋