Pumpkin, Once the needle is in, you can't feel the liquid. Bend over so your tummy touches your knees and scratch your backbone right in the center of your back. Thats about how not painful it is. I also warned the anestheseologists about my fear and with my c-section, by the time I started to feel a little nauseas(and I mean very tiny bit-more like my acid reflux because I was lying so far backward on the table) the baby was out, and he turned up the anti-emetic and the demeral and I was in sleepy land.