re: truth about epidurals

Quoting Stacey{{TTC}}:“ Yup i looked al pretty going in lol...make-up done hair all cute freshly pedied toes lol but after 22 hours hard labor....not so pretty lol”

Same for me. and 23 hrs of labor later I looked like I had been hit with an 18 wheeler lol!

Quoting Amandita Is Overdue!!:“ my sisters only worked on half her body too, if that happens, they cant re-do it?”

They came in and tried to re-adjust it. I don't think they can give you another. Every once in awhile a nurse or some one would come in and shoot some thing in it that made it work completely, but it would only last like 20 minutes and then back to one side. I 'm going to have one again even if its half its better than none.

Quoting Stacey{{TTC}}:“ Yup i looked al pretty going in lol...make-up done hair all cute freshly pedied toes lol but after 22 hours hard labor....not so pretty lol”

i didnt get too prettied up, i knew i didnt want makeup because i knew i'd sweat. but i did my hair(not that theres much to do, since it's curly, i only have 1 style haha), but i at least had it curly instead of all frizzy in a bun haha   and it didnt change too much from labor, but i had my mom cut it the night before so that it wasnt in my way, so it's kind if weird looking haha  

right before we left for the hospital, i look like crap, tired! it was really early haha  

and here's after labor, i think it just dried, so it shrunk up a little, and prolly got somewhat frizz tinted from sweating, but not too bad...

Quoting Amandita Is Overdue!!:“ Horrible! I would be so mad if that happened to me. and congratulations on not using any meds, that is ... [snip!] ... that strength and willpower to be able to do it without any, i will see what happens tomorrow, but i doubt i will be able to.”

Yea, i didnt think i could do it either like i went in there with the mind set in NO PAIN MEDS AT ALL and i had told my MIL and Hubby(who were in the room with me) that i did not want any unless i couldnt do it they helped me through the pain but my damn doc kept pressing for the EPI That is why this time aroundi am switching doctors!

Mommy2Bella~&~Isiah; Yea 22 hours no food in pain haha i HATE the after pics! lol

Quoting Bubba {Jalene's mommy}:“ What do you mean only half? Like your right/left half? The nurse turned me every 20 minutes from my back to my side to my other side.”

I could feel everything on my left side, my right was completely numb.

Quoting lolajessup:“   i did and am happy i did, especially since i had none i labor. the pics go from me at home before leaving to be induced, and then to the baby after she was born  ”

I have a bajillion pics of us in the hospital waiting for her and two of me pushing. I made sure I got plenty of pics and made my mom write down all the facts as the nurses told them to me b/c all I could think of was my labor story and pics on BG lol

Quoting Jbucci:“ I could feel everything on my left side, my right was completely numb.”

Wow that's weird b/c the nurse had me rotate positions for that exact reason. The only thing that sucked was I got my feeling back when the dr was stitching me back up. He didn't give me a shot b/c he figured the epi would numb it but I could feel every little thing.