New mum Christina Applegate suffered in agony when she gave birth to baby daughter SADIE GRACE last month (Jan11) after opting not to have an epidural as planned.
The actress endured an 18-hour delivery and admits she felt "profound pain" as she became a first-time mum.
Appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in America, she explains, "I had my plan... to have an epidural but I didn't react to it well.
"I didn't like it. I didn't like the feeling of numbness. I didn't like it. It was really creepy to me. It was too much, so we turned it off and we opted for go all the way... It was profound pain."