If i choose to get an epidural, will the birth process be painful or will i feel pressure instead?

Pressure: You will feel pressure and an urge to push, but your pain will be 90 percent less. Trouble with epidurals is that women want 100% pain relief and anesthesiologists are eager to please, give them extra medicine and then the ladies with unreasonable expectations are unable to move their legs, can't push well, or get short of breath because the level of the block is too high.