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Once I got the epidural I regretted not being able to get up and walk around

I don’t regret it. I have high pain tolerance and I lasted a long time before requesting it. I also made sure to keep my feet and legs moving after the drug kicked in, which helped me to feel more in control of my body, and I was walking around in my room after my shivers stopped.

I don’t regret it. But I would change it if I could

I had 2 c sections and I do not regret them! My first wasn’t a choice but my second was! I just had no want to experience any kind of pain or anything.

My bestie does. She rants on every week about how her back now hurts constantly from what she blames on the epi. She doesn’t want another because she doesn’t want that back pain all throughout the next pregnancy and then maybe having to choose epi again because of her low pain tolerance