Which does not surprise me, darling.  
   
 The needle pounded into the spine is called an epidural...it relieves painful contractions during vaginal child birth.  And since you have inquired about it in depth, I will elaborate on it in depth with the related post from my blog...  
   
 "I have a VERY high tolerance of pain, and when these a-holes gave me Pitocin and asked me how painful my contractions were, I had to restrain myself from choking them to death and tell them that if they didn’t give me a fucking epidural, I was going to pass out on them, PRONTO.  
   
 And then then most wonderful man I have ever known entered the room.  He had big-ass needle, but I knew he would make everything better.   😀  
   
 Believe it or not, I still wanted to participate in the birth of my child, so I requested a partial epidural.  
   
 This man knew what he was doing, and when he went to pound that 3.5″ needle through my spine and told me to cough, I was instantly in heaven.  
   
 Whenever in doubt, always cough.  This goes for epidurals, IV’s, catheters, etc.  
   
 And before I knew it, I was having my child.  
   
 My epidural was so weak that when my doctor went to sew me up (I was like a stage 4 episiotomy), I kept saying, “Ow, ow, ow…” and he said, “Oh, you can feel that??”   LOL  
   
 Then he gave me some more shots in my vajayjay, which felt awesome, of course."  
   
 They also hook an IV and catheter up to you when you're having a baby...nothing special about it, just an FYI for ignorant and entitled mongers like you.