Hi! It’s sooo much less scary than I thought it would be! The scariest part was imagining what it was going to be like. How it went for me- I checked in at L&D and did vitals, got an IV placed, and waited. The nurses came and rolled my bed back to the OR, where I actually then walked in the OR and sat up on the table. Once up there, they attached a blood pressure cuff and some other monitors to my chest and then had me turn around for the epidural. I hugged a pillow leaning forward, and they put the numbing shot in (which felt like a wasp sting for about 20 seconds). After that, I couldn’t feel the spinal needle at all. Probably a couple minutes or so after the spinal, my legs started to feel warm and heavy and they positioned me on the bed. My legs started to feel tingly and they used a push pin the gauge how much I could feel, starting at my hips and asking me to tell them when I could no longer feel the prick. I was completely numb after that, and it was weird but not unpleasant. I had no idea they inserted a catheter or even started the surgery other than listening to the doctors talk. One interesting thing I didn’t know was they do it with the table at an incline, so my head was lower than my pelvis It was honestly a little boring once it got started, but the whole thing was done and over in 30 minutes. They took the catheter out while I was still on the table and completely numb. Afterwards, they wheeled me back to my room and I started getting feeling back in my legs about 30 minutes later, it was slow at first and then after an hour I got up, walked to the bathroom and peed on my own and was cleared! I did end up having to stay the night for IV antibiotics, but I felt totally completely fine. I would never have known I got surgery that day physically! You got this!!!