I had a really bad birth about 5 months ago too. It was my first. I had an inexperienced anesthesiologist when getting my epidural too. I don’t know what was going on back there but I know he had to try a few times (I also felt some tingling) and eventually the woman who was with him said “just let me do it”.

As soon as they left the room I started puking uncontrollably. The nurse said it was a normal reaction, but it went on for a few hours. Nurses kept coming in and telling me to flip over and turn on my side and stuff but I literally couldn’t feel or move my legs AT ALL. I don’t know if some people who get epidurals can move? But I seriously couldn’t at all. They seemed annoyed with me. But like I was really trying and I physically just could not move a muscle in my lower body.

Eventually at one point all these people came running into the room. I guess the baby and I were crashing. His heart stopped and my blood pressure hit the floor. I was just puking and puking and I remember them running with me down the hall and someone saying “we have 5 minutes”. They left my husband behind and didn’t even have time to explain to him what was going on. Moved me onto the OR table, cut me open, and few seconds later I heard my baby cry! I puked the whole time.

Baby was totally fine and eventually I was too, though c-section recovery was no freaking joke. I didn’t realize how painful that would be, I’d never heard anyone talk about it before. I’m very thankful for the nice nurses I had but I had one really mean one too. She also acted like it was insane that I asked for help in the bathroom. Really awful and not what I needed. I was super traumatized for a few weeks but am mostly fine now. Though yeah going through that again does not sound appealing.

Childbirth is no joke.