I intended not to put epidural for my labor and during the first 6 hours, i was depleting all my energy trying to endure the contraction and the nurse came by and jokingly said my room is the most noisiest coz all other mummy has injected epidural in the beginning... my husb suggested to take seeing how weak i have become and seriously if i dont take epidural, i dont think i have the strength to push after 12 hours of contraction...