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Professor and midwife Dr. Denis Walsh says moms-to-be get too many epidurals these days, depriving them of the important character-building effects of agony. More »
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Science guy says: "Our conclusion is that natural childbirth preparation with psychoprophylaxis does not reduce the need for epidural analgesia or improve the birth experience, when compared with the standard form of antenatal education." Translation: watch the labor scene in any rom-com! More »
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Can a woman with a lower-back tattoo receive an epidural? In a word, yes. But somehow, year after year, the issue around ink and spinal injection keeps coming back. Today there's an article in The Wall Street Journal, which references a report from 2002 in which two Canadian anesthesiologists questioned whether administering an epidural through a tattoo was risky. The study consisted of only three women, and, not surprisingly, there wasn't enough evidence to form a conclusion. (Since then, many doctors have been quoted as saying that unless the tattoo is brand new, the ink would be "inert" and the wound healed, posing no risk.) More »
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