How painful is Natural childbirth ? and what kind of sideffect does epidural have ? I’m scar of natural birth.
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I personally think that natural childbirth is the easiest. The pain is manageable. When they use Pitocin to speedup labor, it can get crazy painful. C-section is major surgery, I'd hate to go thru that unless absolultely necesssary.
If you can handle a needle jabbed into your spinal column, the pain will be much less. There are risks with that of course - like severe headache from leaking cerbro-spinal fluid and pain at the injection site.
Wish you a good delivery and a healthy baby!
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^ but everyone has a different pain threshold so i don't know that its fair to say its "manageable" since, really, it comes down to the individual and what they can tolerate. i don't have a single acquaintance/friend who has managed to have her baby without drugs- and these are strong, capable women who all went into labour determined to have a natural childbirth but found the pain too much to handle. most of them made it to 5 or 6 cms before requesting one. apparently after that is when it becomes really intense.
plus there are issues with natural childbirth too- episiotomies are hardly pleasant experiences and quite a few women end up tearing and requiring one in the process of having a vaginal delivery- i say if an epidural eases your labour pain and the pain from tearing, and it helps you have your baby without a c-section, then more power to you.
i agree with you about the Pitocin though- from what i've read, it was never approved for use as a drug to induce labour but it is still being used for that.