Labour Q's - epi & natural

kaylaakosua

As long as I can remember I was planning on getting an epi for the pain, But over the past week I've come to realize I want to go natural. It started out " for as long as I can until I can't take the pain anymore" and now it has morphed into fully natural.

Beyond the obvious health risks and what not the main reasoning why I want to go natural is to help recovery faster. So my question is how long after birth can you generally get up, shower, bathroom, walk with baby... etc assuming no huge tears. 

The epi's take longer to wear off I know that and my hospital does 1 hr of skin to skin contact immediately after birth ( Thank god ) so if I did end up getting it would it wear off that I could walk in time? ....