https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:27:57 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-332029 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:57:17 +0000 jennylynn 332029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got my epidural at 5, and had LO at 9:53. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-332012 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:50:36 +0000 twinmama 332012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>epi at 4 cm (with pit), kids were born just shy of 3 hours later </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331985 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:43:41 +0000 sorrycharlie 331985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got my epi at 10cm +3, lol. </p> <p>my OB had my labor down for a half hour, then she was born 25 minutes after starting pushing.</p> <p>so - an hour. but realistically it could have been minutes. we just chose to wait. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331881 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:07:12 +0000 Crisark 331881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my first it was more than 8hrs. With my second it was 4 hrs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331776 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:14:14 +0000 pastemoo 331776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>8.5 or more hours later, I was pushing. 10+ hours later I had a c-section. I had been at the hospital 29 hours at that point.<br /> I was at 7cm when I got the epidural, so I was progressing slowly anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331774 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:13:42 +0000 Rock n Roll 331774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my first, she was born within an hour or so of getting the epidural, with my second, she was born within 45 minutes of getting it. I waited to get it until I was in transition with both. I actually think I was fully dilated when I got it with the second one, because I started feeling the urge to push as they were doing it. I was at 8 cm with the first one. Both were vaginal deliveries. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331762 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:08:32 +0000 mamabolt 331762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Asked for an epi when I first got checked at the hospital - it was 3:30 am and I was 6 cm. Didn't get the epi until around 5/5:30 am. I was checked again at 6 am and was at 10 cm then, started pushing about 6:15 am. DD arrived at 6:49 am. So I would guess I was pretty far gone by the time I actually got it, but since I wasn't checked at all in that time frame don't know exactly where. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331723 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:46:28 +0000 Honeybee 331723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD: I got the epidural at 5cms about 4 hours after my water broke. I had DD about 4.5 hours later, after 30 minutes of pushing.</p> <p>DS: I got the epidural at 6 cms, after 8 hours of contractions. I had him about 4 hours later, after 30 minutes of pushing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331025 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:21:42 +0000 SAHM0811 331025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>with my epidural birth I got it at around 7cm and gave birth about 4 hours later. (from start to finish, I had about a 22 hour labor.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331019 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:15:24 +0000 autumnlove 331019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Got my epidural at 8pm and delivered by C-section at 5 am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331017 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:12:29 +0000 googly-eyes 331017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got the epi at 8 cm after 2 days of labor from first cramps, more than 24 hrs of painful contractions and about 9 in a row of terrible on the floor ones. Started pushing about 6-6.5 hrs later, but what made my labor so long was that my water didn't break. It broke while I was pushing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331016 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:10:07 +0000 leelee 331016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My situation is a tad different because I was induced and according to the anesthesiologist, regardless of when I got the epi it wouldn't slow down my labor since my contractions were being controlled by the pitocin. They brok my water at 8:30am and started me on pitocin at 8am (2cm). I gig the epi at 10:30am (3-4cm). Fully dilated by 12:30pm and had to labor down until 4pm since DD was still stationed too high. 2 hours of pushing and she was born at 6:14pm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-331000 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:01:58 +0000 KT326 331000@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got my epi at 7cm after 7 hours of labor, 2 hours later I was at 10cm, I labored down for a little over an hour and then pushed for 3 hours. He epi didn't slow down my contractions at all. Even the nurse was surprised at how fast my contractions were still coming. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330942 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:51:25 +0000 skibobrown 330942@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got my epi at 7 cm and was pushing maybe 30-40 minutes later! My doctor thought I would be at least a couple more hours until pushing since I had such a slow labor, but in retrospect when I got my epi I was already starting transition. So really, I probably could have made it without the epi... but I kind of loved my epi in the end. It took away almost all of the pain, but left behind the other sensations, so I knew exactly when to push. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330935 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:45:17 +0000 HabesBabe 330935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>8am: induced<br /> 7pm: epidural at 3cm<br /> 9pm: dilated to 6cm<br /> 4:30am the next day: started pushing<br /> 5:17am: baby born </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330930 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:42:23 +0000 Mrs. Bee 330930@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i had my first contraction around 4:30pm, and i got the epidural around 1am? at 8cm with charlie. that really slowed my labor down and i didn't start pushing until 12 hours later. i ended up with a c-section.</p> <p>second labors are much faster. i had my first contraction around 5pm, got my epidural around 7:30 at 3cm, had olive at 1:40am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330903 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:19:14 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 330903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got mine at 12:45 am at 3 cm. I was 8 by the morning around 8:30 am and he was born at 9:26 am. I could barely handle the contractions before I got it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330892 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:11:31 +0000 heffalump 330892@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started labor at 10 pm, got my epi around 6 am at 5 cm. I started pushing at 1 pm and had lo at 2:09 pm.</p> <p>So so glad I had it! Since I went into labor in the middle of the night I was exhausted, had no sleep, and really needed that rest. It only took an hour to push lo out and I don't think I would have done it so quickly if I didn't have my sleep /strength. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330889 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:08:42 +0000 lovehoneybee 330889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got the epidural at 5cm, after about 17 hrs of early laborious and 4 hrs of active. I got it at 4am, by 9am I was 9cm. Then it stopped working and it took my an hour and a half of laboring without it to get to 10. They fixed the epi then and let me rest half an hour before pushing, and I pushed for 2hrs. So 9 hrs from the first dose until delivery. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330881 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:02:18 +0000 Weagle 330881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got my epi at 10 cm (yeah, still wrestling with that decision), and it totally stalled labor. I was at 10 at 7:30am and started pushing at 2pm. Contractions got really irregular, and I had to get pitocin to get them going again just so I could push. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330880 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:01:36 +0000 yin 330880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started having contractions at 10am and had an epidural at 4am the next morning. I was 7cm dilated. I started pushing 7 hours later, and my LO arrived after pushing for 3 hours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330854 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:51:46 +0000 pinkcupcake 330854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got my epidural at 8CM. I think I started pushing maybe 2 hours later? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330799 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:30:26 +0000 Rubies 330799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got my epi when I was 7cm dilated at 11am. I started pushing 4 hours later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330779 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:20:52 +0000 cranberryapple 330779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got the epidural when I was only 3.5cm dilated! I felt like such a failure, but then again, my contractions had been going on for 15 hours beforehand. I was HOPING it would relax me enough to dilate more, but it took FOREVER....I got my epidural at 2:30PM and didn't push until 4:30AM!! &gt;_&lt; BUT, when the epidural was working, it was MAGICAL!!!!! My only consolation was that it only took me 20 minutes to push, but it felt more like 10 minutes to me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330760 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:13:34 +0000 Andrea 330760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I felt my first contraction around 4:30 am and got an epi at 10 pm. I was 5 cm I think and having contractions every minute. I started pushing at 6 am and pushed for 3.5 hours. They also gave me pitocin at some point so I guess I wasn't dilating fast enough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-after-the-epi-did-you-deliver#post-330754 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:09:40 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 330754@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So to my understanding,sometimes the epi can relax a mother and get her to dilate quickly...but sometimes it does the exact opposite and stalls the labor.<br /> How long after the epi did you start pushing and at what point (how many hours in and how many cm) did you get the epidural? </p> <p>*this is just to gather data as I am still on the fence with the epi (leaning towards it majorly) </p>