What’s It Like to Get an Epidural?

Mommy Labor Nurse

Liesel Teen

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I go over a highly requested topic that you guys have sent me: EPIDURALS!!

Here are the questions we go over!

1. What is it like to get an epidural? What Is the procedure like?

2. What are some common side effects and complications?

3. Common myths vs. facts regarding epidurals?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Mommy Laborders Podcast episode number 31.
0:05.0	Hey guys, guess where I am right now? I am actually in my office for the first time in two months.
0:10.0	It feels so good to be here and to be at work. I've been working out of
0:16.7	my house for the past two months with my three-year-old who is not taking a nap
0:22.0	anymore and my husband who is not taking a nap anymore.
0:24.1	And my husband who's working out of the house,
0:26.3	as we all have probably been doing.
0:28.9	And it's been a challenge, of course, right?
0:31.4	So we made the executive decision to at least have me come back into my office
0:36.6	because there's really no, I'm in contact with nobody here and Walter did just go back for his first day of daycare
0:46.8	today as well I dropped him off and we trust them we felt like that was the
0:52.2	best decision for our family so yeah we're kind of back
0:57.2	So this week I felt like hey since I'm in the office I might as well do a whole Q and a for you guys and do an episode that's just a solo episode of me
1:06.9	educating you guys on a certain subject and I've gotten this request a lot to do a whole episode dedicated to
1:14.3	epidurals and education about epidurals and kind of common questions that people
1:19.2	have on epidurals. So that's what we're going to tackle today. We're going to dispel some of the common myths that
1:25.7	epidurals have kind of circling around them. And I'm going to go through the whole process of what getting an epidural is like.
1:35.0	The hospital that I work at here in Raleigh, we are, I would say probably 60%
1:42.0	is of our patients end up getting epidurals. So I'm very familiar with epidurals and I see
1:47.0	them all the time and just a lot of the common, you know, side effects and just everything that kind of goes along with
1:54.0	epidurals I'm very very aware of. So I'm gonna do my best to give you as much
1:58.9	information as I can and answer as many questions as I can regarding that topic.
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