Objective is to examine the effect of epidural analgesia in first stage ... babies were delivered at a free standing birth center or at 3 hospitals, all in San Diego, CA. This study of 2,052 ...

BOSTON - New research finds getting an epidural during labor could help reduce ... or hysterectomy in the first few weeks after birth. The benefit was even greater in patients delivering ...

TALK TO. . . your consultant. Epidural Birth An epidural is an injection of powerful pain relieving drugs into the spine. It can only be set up by an anaesthetist so it?s as well to let the ...

I vividly remember being a little girl and being afraid of childbirth.I’m not sure if it was the dramatised depictions on ...

An epidural is an injection of powerful pain ... Talk to: Your midwife. The National Childbirth Trust can give advice for the best positions, breathing exercises and natural pain relief.

That does increase the chances your blood pressure could drop, so just to be on the safe side, you and your baby will be monitored during your birth if you have an epidural. The drug pethidine takes ...

Although there is no evidence that giving birth in the water can reduce the need for a caesarean, research shows they do reduce the need for an epidural. Sami Joyce, a midwife in Kent, said as ...

An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...