Follow your body's cue. Only you will know how the pain is.
I intended to not use any options for pain relief but I end up using epidural still. I have high tolerance for pain but just not with contractions. This time I took it early when I was 3cm dilated and sadly it does not work on my body so I still felt intense pain. Really regret taking it too early but because I was already having contractions as I was induced and had to do a membrane sweep during labour. I still managed to 'tahan' the pain and delivered my baby within 3 hrs.
I took the epi late with my previous deliveries so they worked well on me. Felt numb all the way and I didn't feel my baby coming out. So yes, best is to take the epi late when you feel like you cannot take it.
Our body are all different lah. Some can tahan, some cannot. You follow yours. Epi is not painful at all. You'll be busy with the contractions and all you want is for the pain to go away. Then you can rest, can sleep, can laugh and all w/o feeling the contractions.
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