Epidural- Me three

by Ethel
(Eugene,OR)

My husbands sister had an epidural and complained about constant backaches every 2 weeks to a month. For 8 months she dealt with it and finally had to be prescribed.

My husbands sister tends to exagerate.
I had wanted a natural birth, but caved in to an epidural due to my friend's mother's recommendation. I was very upset with my self once the pain went away and I realised what I had agreed too. My delivery went by smoothly, but I felt so emotionally disconnected to my baby.

I didn't want to touch him. I still held him and tried to feed him, but I couldn't acknowledge him. I didn't feel him come out which is why it was hard to connect. There was no click that natural birth gives.

Four days after delivery, I was on painkillers to cope, but that didn't mask the sharp pain I got that day. I shrieked and gasped, I could not believe how much it hurt.

From once a week to once a month, to every time I try to workout, I get that same pain and have to lay on my bed, till it goes away.