Pain meds during labor

[Omacastrop]

Has everyone thought of pain meds during labor? Have u done research on how it can affect u & more importantly ur new baby? Obviously I am pro natural birth mainly bc mom's have been giving birth for thousands of years without any help. A woman gets to a hospital & thinks a doctor knows more abt her body than she does. New reports from the medical community is that an epidural can cause autism & a huge host of other problems.

[expectingbaby4]

With my first pregnancy it was all natural, my second I did get meds through iv and my baby girl was born and having a hard time breathing scared me . Shes fine now but will never take meds again. My third I took no meds even though it was 13 hrs of labor. She was born awake and alert. It was such a beautiful labor. My 4 little girl will be delivery completely naturally. That's if she decides to turn cuz she breech right now. I'm 26 weeks 4days

[coffeebuzzedliz]

I had an epidural with my first, she is 2.5 and doing great and plan on having an epidural with my second. I know what contractions feel like and I don't want to go through that again!

[sorenr]

I was more frightened of a needle in my spine than of labour so I went as natural as possible. Didnt work out for me first time, had to have an emergency spinal anaesthetic (I was in too much pain to care at that point!) and a forceps delivery because of my baby's position...second time was nearly completely natural, just gas and air and a wonderful birth...this time I hope to give birth at home with just my old friend gas and air!!

[Ashleigh529]

Ive had an epidural with both my deliveries and now with #3 im going to try my hardest to do it without one. I had a bad experience the 2nd time and im a little affraid now. Hope i can handle the pain.

[mrsreeder2be]

I will be getting an epidural! And any other pain meds they give me. I'm having another c section, and I'm allergic to morphine and demerol. (Two most popular and common drugs given during delivery.) So pain management is a bit harder for me. Both my boys are fine after epidurals! They are 4 and 1.

[Heatherm4]

I looked into pain meds a lot while pregnant with my first and decided against it. Mainly for the fact that the rise in autism correlates with the rise in epidurals.
I was able to go through labour without any type of pain medication at all. The only thing I was stuck with was something to get my uterus to contract and get the placenta out but obviously my son was already born so I was fine with that.
It is do-able, just have to educate yourself on how to handle the pain. What kept me going was that there was going to be an end to it. I even had very bad back labour!