No epidural experience
Hello. Im planning not to take epidural but can i know if its painful? What abt the stitching part once you’ve delivered your baby? Can you feel the doc stitching up?
Truth is labour pain depends on your pain threshold. If you can hold pain, go natural, take the gas mask or otherwise epidural is there to help you so you won't feel any contractions and can even go to sleep. For episiotomy, you'll be injected with a local anesthesia to make the area numb (and if you're on epidural, you'll also won't feel a thing cos you'll be numb from waist down) so yes you won't feel the doc stitching you up but you'll feel slight pain & feel uncomfortable when the numbness wears off. That's when you'll have difficulties sitting, lying, peeing & even pooping.
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