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This is such an accurate post!!!! Ladies, can you imagine what it would be like to have your c-sections with one spinal, it wears off in recovery, there is NO morphine drip, no patient pump b___ton, and you could feel your pain starting in as your started to feel your body wake up? Then it was 4 hours later before any pain injection. The pain injections were given for one day and lasted about 3 hours, so for the last hour (or more if nurses were busy) you were completely without pain relief until it was "time" for another. Then, they weaned you right away to pain pills, those were weaker, and of course, the arbitrary 4 hour minimum was established again, they wore off in 2 hours, so you had to wait 2 more hours, and then (if lucky) got your pain pill and had to wait another 30-40 minutes for it to get in your blood stream. So when you hear some women say c-sections hurt and they wouldn't choose one, perhaps you should understand that there are those of us who really FELT them for what they are, and realize how much was actually done to our bodies. Thanks for a new topic and an interesting chance to express myself.

Linda is correct! Pain relief has come a long way. As the recipient of all the "small print" after-effects of c-sections, it is patently obvious from prior posts that I am not a big fan of c-sections (though I rightly admit some of us need them). I certainly am not a fan of a c-section without medical conditions due to all that is done to the body and all that can last forever after. I had my c's awhile ago and what Linda described is exactly what women used to go through. So the point is: just because pain relief has gotten better doesn't mean the operations don't cause the same damage internally as they used to.