Sorry if this is an odd question but do mobile epidurals exist?!
Lots of people I know have talked about them enthusiastically saying pain is taken away but you can still change position, move around to an extent and feel enough to know when to push. Sounds perfect. I went to the NHS class at my local hospital and the midwife running it told us that mobile epidurals were a myth, it was just that epidurals had different effects on different people so when you ask for an epidural you don't know whether or not you'll be able to be mobile - just good luck if you are. Friends of mine tell me that they went to same hospital, asked for mobile epi and that's what the got.
Am confused, anyone know the answer or have any exprience of them? I seem to be drifting away from 'home birth with whale music' towards 'all possible pain relief immediately' as things get closer!!
Catz (36+2)
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'mobile' epidurals
Catz · 15/06/2007 18:13
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