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I don't remember exactly what would happen if you move when you get your epidural, but I totally remember the anasthelogist telling me not to move. You usually get it with your feet hanging over the side of the bed, like you are st_ting on the bed waiting to get out of it. I watched TV and did not move a bit....even though it was hard through contractions. Also, don't look at the needle!!!!! It's too d__n big!

My answer is yes. I had "the shakes" really bad the first time around, and couldn't hold still. They attempted to place the cathedar twelve times, three different docs tried. The last one said he "got it" However, I was not numb and felt every d__n contraction and every bit of my vacuum extraction delivery. IT SUCKED. However, I am going to try my best to hold still with this next one, and hopefully I will have a different outcome. If not, this one is my LAST...Good luck

Sorry, Mandy, but when I read your post I couldn't help but chuckle a bit...isn't a vacuum extraction delivery supposed to suck? But, in reality, I'm sorry you had a bad experience and hope you have a better one next time around.

I don't know if it was because she moved, but a friend of mine got a horrible headache afterwards because they knicked something. They had to go back in twice to try to correct it and she was in pain for 2 days after she had the baby.

I don't know about all of that stuff people normally say but I know what happened when I got my epidural. The anesthiologist didn't enter my back correctly and spinal fluid came out. I had migraines for a month while it was rebuilding. And when the medication went in, all of it seeped to my left leg causing it to swell up larger than my tummy. In the end I felt everything because it didn't numb me where it should--and I also ended up with the migraines and a swollen leg I had to drag behind me for a week. Would I do it again? Of course, because luckily that place I gave birth in shut down and I am in an altogether new state now. It's worth the risk because having natural child birth and an epiosotomy (which they didn't numb me for because they thought I couldn't feel anything) hurts like hell-o!