6th February 2008 21:09
Well, having intended to have a totally med free labour I ended up trying a bit of everything so here's my tuppence worth! Gas & air I didn't like as it made me feel totally stoned, or what I would imagine that to feel like, seemed like the midwife was floating in mid-air and was shouting at me from a great distance, which all combined to make me feel a bit ill! And didn't do anything for the pain....so I tried the pethidine, which I would totally advise against as it made me vomit and in between the vomiting I kept falling asleep and again, did nothing for the pain!!! Bear in mind though that i tend not to react well to anasthetics and medication generally anyway, so that reaction might just be because of my own particular system! Epidural didn't hurt at all going in, so don't be worried about that, and was definitely the best in terms of pain relief, although I had it very late on so the effect was limited! Making myself sound like a total wuss here but in my defence she was a rather large baby!! My advice would be try not to use anything at all, which I obviously didn't manage!! Or go for the epidural and get it straight away!!! Apologies for the epic response!!