*comes to see tagged post.....reads a few comments into it.....thinks, "WTF am I reading?"....responds with...*
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Oh, but yeah, one of my friends and I were actually discussing this just the other day. While like Senhor said the epidural can help as far as numbing you so you don't feel the pain of the actual childbirth, people seem to forget how much the epidural itself hurts. Or can hurt, at least. I'm sure both the epidural experience and childbirth experience are different from woman to woman. However, one of our friends has two children -- one she had with an epidural and the other she had naturally. For her, the epidural hurt worse than the actual childbirth. She said she would never do that again and basically recommends going with natural childbirth since the epidural hurt worse than shoving a tiny human out of her did. I also have a couple of an acquaintance that is a midwife and had natural childbirth with her children, which is what she highly recommends women do.
For anyone who read that semi-lengthy paragraph of female dribble: kudos.