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Ok, I've been freaking out on how painful giving birth will be. I'm planning on having an epidural but I can't stop thinking about when they insert the urinary catheter... Is it painfull? I've seen the procedure on youtube and it looks terribly painful.
I think it depends on hospital policy. At our hospital you have to have a cath when you get an epi but at the hospital 30 minutes away they don't make you get one.
I got one in before I got my epi done, it hurt but it wasen't terrible. Its quickly done too so you only feel pain for a bit if you get it done without the epi. Which would probably be the case if it was in a situation similar to mine. I wasen't allowed to get up to go pee because of fear of my water breaking since it was preterm labor, so they put it in. But like everyone else said, if its a normal labor/delivery then you won't feel a thing since you'll get the epi beforehand.
I had an epidural, and I didn't have a catheter until hours in to my labour as I couldn't wee. They made me wee a few times but once I couldn't feel to wee they put one in emptied my bladder and took it out........I didn't feel a thing.
When they took me to theatre they gave me a diff kind of epidural (for c-section even tho i didn't end up having one) which I believe is slightly diff than normal epidural then once Noah was born they put a catheter in and it was taken out about 6 hours later and I had feeling back it was just like a tiny scratch, I had ben told by a friend it hurt rly bad but it didn't at all!
I had one without an epidural the first time round, and although it was uncomfy and a slight sting as far as I can remember, it really was nothing on the grand scheme of things.
I never even realised I had one with Alfie until I saw the bag on my shoulder on the way back from theatre
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