Giving birth can be nerve-racking to say the least. It’s normal to worry about D-day because every expectant mother experiences the pain of childbirth differently and complications aren’t uncommon. It doesn’t help when you hear scary stories about medical mistakes in the delivery room.

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What you need to know before getting an epidural
A woman who gave birth 14 years ago at a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital recently found out that the sharp, chronic pain she has lived with in her back and legs ever since the delivery is because a fragment of a broken epidural needle has been stuck in her spine for all these years. Amy Bright was set for a planned C-section in September 2003 and says that after delivering her youngest son, she immediately felt acute pain in her back and leg. She was still in pain when she was discharged from the hospital, and according to Bright, has been ever since.
?It feels like fire, like a poker next to my tailbone,? Bright told First Coast News. ?And then on occasion, it shoots down the left side of my leg on my calf, like my calf side, and then down and into my foot.?
After years of not knowing the cause of her chronic pain, it came as a shock a few months ago when Bright got the results of a CT scan in...