Hi, I am 24 years old and I delivered my first child when I was 21. The pregnancy was perfect, no troubles. I had an epidural for birthing pain and right after the epideral was taken out (after delivering) I had extreme back pain. Come to find out, I have congenital spinal stenosis and a disc (L-5 S1) that herniated during or close to my delivery. I had surgery done 3 days after giving birth on the disc. I've been seeing my Spinal surgeon off and on for the past two years. We've been talking alot about myself having another pregnancy. Besides rest in the later months and physical therapy again, he keeps saying, "There's no way to tell what may happen during delivery." I know I can't have an epidural, should I do a c-section? I'm worried about birthing and my back herniating again.