How long did you wait for your epidural?

[Sagres]

I waited about 20-25 minutes I think. This was in a small hospital and I was the only one labouring so there were no anesthetists floating around waiting for me. The hospital uses an agency that has lots of anesthetists on call and they just call in whoever is closest or already at work.

[little_mrs]

Mine took about 2hrs from when I asked to it going in, mainly coz it was 12 midnight on new years eve when I asked for it (around 2:30am new years day when i could finally breath calm again!) and the hospital was busy with drunken idiots, and coz my contractions were so close and intense it took ages to take the blood tests before I could have the epidural. My labour went for 7hrs before, 2hrs waiting and another 10hrs after the epidural kicked in so I'm very glad I had it!

[FabFiona]

They rushed mine as my OB was worried I was going to have a stroke due to extreme blood pressure. I reckon he was there in about 5 mins from when we agreed to have one.


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[young_mumma87]

for my DS the doc told me at around 10am they were breaking my waters and i was having an epidural they broke may waters at around 11;30ish after they did that i asked to have a shower they said yeah no worries the antithesis (sp?) will be a while so they made the gas longer to reach in the shower and as soon as i stepped under that water in he walks.. so around 15 minutes i remember after he was done it was around 12-12:30 took him four goes to get it in though as i overdoseed on the gas twice and he was having a go at me at my tattoo not being centered!!!!

[~me~]

First time it was less than 20mins. They got the Anaesthetic up out of bed (it was midnight), he only lived around the corner.
2nd time was around 20mins.
3rd time not at all, had my waters broken by the OB and then he was in straight after.

2nd and 3rd time round I got one of those trigger ones I could control, it was great.

[Mother Goose]

I waited 90 minutes for him to arrive and then it took him an hour to get it in. No lie. I have calcified ligaments in my back (which we discovered that day!) and it took way too long. If he hadn't got it in that last time, I wasn't going to be getting one

Heather, can I ask where you had your last 2? Sounds like you may have had remifentanyl which is a relatively new thing during labour in Vic. I've been trying to find a hossy that does it for when I eventually have #2 (if I go for a VBAC)

[~me~]

Heather, can I ask where you had your last 2? Sounds like you may have had remifentanyl which is a relatively new thing during labour in Vic. I've been trying to find a hossy that does it for when I eventually have #2 (if I go for a VBAC)

I had all my babies at Frances Perry. DD was at the new Frances Perry.