Once I got into the labor and delivery room, I told the nurse I wanted an epidural right away. They had to do some labs on me to make sure I was good to go. The labs game came back fine, and we were just waiting on the anesthesia people.
Josh finally got to come inside the hospital at 9:40 pm. They checked my cervix again and I was 7 cm this time, moving along quite quickly.
20 minutes later, the anesthesia team came at 10 pm. They had me stand up, lean my front side over a table and they started poking me. I had contractions during this time, making it even less fun. They asked me what side I felt pain to try to get it in the center as much as possible and it felt like painful bubbles popping in my back. Getting the epidural was way more painful than I thought, but it was still worth it. It didn’t take long for it to kick in.
They told me to lay on my left side to get the anesthesia on that side and then my right to get it on that side too. The left side went well and my legs, abdomen and privates were getting numb. I switched to my right side, but baby boy didn’t like it, so I had to switch back to my left. His heart rate slowed down and my blood pressure dropped. Eventually I just laid on my back and it helped to get it to my right side more, but it was never fully there, so I had more feeling on that side.
After I got the epidural, I couldn’t feel the contractions hardly at all. They weren’t as close together as before, which extended the labor. Josh and I were able to relax for a few hours. Josh finished watching Spider-Man on his phone, while I rested my eyes.
Photo taken at 1 am
Around 2:45 am, I started to feel like I had to poop. I called the nurse in and told her that. She said that was just what she needed to hear. She checked my cervix one more time and said I was complete. I was at 10 cm and she couldn’t feel my cervix at all, meaning it was fully effaced.
She brought in the midwife and off we went to give birth to the baby.
Who else chose to get an epidural? Who chose not to or was unable to get one? What was your reasoning? Tell me about it in the comment section.
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