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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 3791293" data-attributes="member: 13703">Yeah, Sophie was quite alert after the birth, looking around at things, even if her little eyes weren't necessarily able to focus on anything.My wife had most of the pain relief available.  She started out with the laughing gas, had some pethadine when the contractions got stronger and then eventually had to have an epidural to cope with the pain.She found that the gas was ok to start with but the pethadine did almost nothing for her (apart from make her vomit a few times).  She got an epidural because the drug (Syntosin?) they were giving her via a drip to bring on the labour makes the contractions quite intense.  The drip makes the woman go from no contractions to 1 every 2 minutes within a very short amount of time.  The midwife said that almost all women that have to be induced with Syntosin have an epidural because of how intense the drug makes the contractions.They controlled how much pain relief they gave her via the epidural.  When the pushing stage started they backed it off so that she was able to feel the contractions more and push the baby out more effectively.  That's probably why Sophie was so drugged out when she was born.  The pushing stage took just over an hour so most of the drugs would have worn off by then.Olaf the StoutP.S.  Apologies if that was a little too graphic for anyone!</blockquote>