What is the difference between the walking epidural and the regular epidural?
A. The differences lie in both the procedure and the medications used. The walking epidural is a combination of spinal and epidural analgesia. While the medications, often referred to as a cocktail, are a narcotic, a local anesthetic and epinephrine, used in smaller amounts than the regular Epidurals Q. What if I need more medication or a cesarean birth? A. The catheter is left in place in your back so that additional medication could be administered for either additional pain relief or a surgical birth. This is the same as the continuous epidural. Drugs for Birth? Drugs for Labor? Should you take drugs during your labor or birth? The decision to either use medications for labor and birth or not use medications is a fairly recent debate believe it or not. It wasn’t that long ago that medications weren’t used commonly in labor and birth, and they weren’t offered or readily available. From that point we went to having them so readily available that they were given nearly without the cons
