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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't get one with my first. With my second I got one when the contractions were regular. DS was born 3 hours later.

Note that epis don't always work so be prepared to feel everything anyway.

Honestly, once I hit transition with him I thought they've turned off the epidural. I yelled at my doula WHO SHUT IT OFF.??.? She said "sorry, it's on and in the max" and I had to use all the techniques I practiced anyway LOL [/quote]

LOL, same here, though mine really had somewhat worn off by the time I got to pushing and they told me they couldn't "top it off" at that point, so I felt a LOT of the pushing. (Though I only pushed for 14 minutes as a FTM who was induced, and had zero tearing or anything, so maybe it was for the better that I had to feel it because it made me push better!)

I was also one of those "GONNA DO IT WITHOUT DRUGS" fools (not all women who go without drugs are fools, mind you, but wimps like me who really have no business pretending they can handle it but insist they can are fools) and went through about 2.5 hours of really fast, hard contractions (from the pitocin) before I finally hit my wall and begged for the epidural.

I can't say exactly when anyone else should get it, because that's very personal and subjective based on your pain tolerance, but I will say, don't wait to ask for it until the pain becomes unbearable. Because as I learned, sometimes the anesthesiologist is busy and can't get to you for 40 minutes, and then you're agonizing for 40 minutes. So ask for it when you juuuust hit the edge of "this might be too uncomfortable for me" to give yourself a little leeway if it takes a bit for the anesthesiologist to get to you. [/quote]

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