I Had an Epidural and My Baby Never Got Stuck

"I'm so thankful that in that pregnancy for that labor, I didn't have an epidural and that he didn't get stuck," she says. "It was so intense that all I could do at every contraction was lay in the bed and go from sidebar for one contraction and picture Jesus on the cross." After her son's birth, doctors found problems with his heart due to two spots which should close as you're giving birth.