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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I hated that feeling. I went without the epi with my second (no pitocin, though), and I had a much better experience. [/quote]

Me too.  That disconnected feeling was really bad for me, though admittedly I had the feel-nothing level of epi (first try only got one side so they had to reapply to make it work on the other side, and the baby was born at most 2 hrs later - in retrospect I was clearly in transition when I got it.) One of my clearest post birth memories was being awake late at night crying in a chair in the hall while my husband and baby slept in the room. There was some other stuff going on and the subsequent breastfeeding issues caused by breast edema from the fluids were also a factor in what was most likely a case of undiagnosed PPD, but regardless for #2 I figured I'd do everything I could to prevent a similar experience and thus opted to forego the epidural.  I know intellectually that it hurt at the end because I remember responding "ask me later" to the midwife when she asked if I was glad I did it.  But the hormones really do mess with memory development because while I can abstractly remember that experience it is from an outsiders perspective - I have no visceral, emotional memory of that pain. And by 2-3 days later I was definitely in the 'unmedicated is great' camp.

Hoping you find the right answer for you in order to have a great birth, and failing that I hope you can find peace that your particular set of circumstances may just mean less than ideal birth experiences, and that sucks but is what it is. [/quote]

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