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Poll: Have you had an epidural?

Have you had an epidural?
Options:
Yes
No
Results:

Yes
91%
No
9%
Total votes: 43
Created by Vero
Posted on 01/09/2009 10:57 AM
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Comments:
yes! Thank Goodness!
posted by on 01/09/2009 02:13 PM
I had an epidural for my 4th child (who just turned one recently) :) the first 3 births I went natural. What was I thinking?!!!
posted by Christina on 01/09/2009 09:43 PM
Same here Christina! I went natural with my first child. But decided to try epidural with my second kid.OMG it was so easy!
posted by Marnie on 01/11/2009 04:11 AM
I too have 4 children and the first 3 went natural but my fourth one I was getting my tubes tied so I decided to go ahead and get it since they would do that or a spinal and I definitely did not want a spinal. I laughed through the whole pushing part it was great.
posted by Tonya on 01/12/2009 12:14 AM
I had it with my frist and plan on having it again with my second due in may
posted by laurie on 01/18/2009 09:22 PM
I went natural both times. They try to make me have one with my first cuz my blood pressure was high, they said it would lower it, but I refused
posted by Jessica on 01/21/2009 09:31 AM
Funny Story, I had one but it didn't work, and I ended up having an emergency c-section any way. they thought I was numb and went to cut my stomach and I was like wait I can feel that so they had to put me to sleep! But I plan to have one next time
posted by Grace on 01/30/2009 03:03 PM
I did not initially want an epideral. I figured natural and if needed the drugs. I worried that the epidural would harm my baby. When i did my hospital orientation, the nurses told me that getting the epidural (baby-wise) was a better choice, minus the possible side effects to mom. They had never seen a an epidural affect a baby but the drugs would cross the placenta. In their past experience, they had to reverse the effects of the drugs on a newborn.

It turned out that my natural delivery went out the window with my back labor pains. Luckily, i was able to sit still long enough for the epidural.

For future deliveries, i will still hope for a natural birth. If it is not possible, i will opt for the epidural. I would rather suffer than my child.
posted by Loda on 03/15/2009 07:19 AM
I had an one on bc i started throwing up blood the pain was not hurting me but it was causing me to be nauoues and i could not lay on my back or side i could only set up bc everytime i layed back i felt like throwing up and the nurse could not heard the babys heart beat with me seating up so i got an epidural.
posted by Alexand... on 10/28/2009 02:43 PM
  
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