Epidurals Quotes:

I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat...

- Kristen Bell

source: "Lincoln Bell Shepard: Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard Welcome Baby Girl". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

topic: Baseball, Glasses, Bats, Epidurals

When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.

- Bonnie McFarlane

topic: Names, People, Giving, Epidurals, Unsolicited Advice

I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

- Danica McKellar

source: "Danica McKellar: 'My Hope Is To Go Fully Natural – No Epidural, No Interventions'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. July 8, 2010.

topic: May, Medical, Surprise, Childbirth, Epidurals

Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart’s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that’s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you’ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart.

- Jonathan Hull

topic: Heart, Love Is, People, Maybe Love, Epidurals

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

- Emily Oster

topic: Helping, Planning, Birth, Doulas, Epidurals