Pain Relief in Child Birth

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This paper contends that childbirth is a powerful rite of passage and that it has the potential to transform women in very deep ways when experienced fully, without the deadening effects of anesthesia, lack of privacy and misuse of medical technology. It describes the negative affects of epidural anesthesia and suggests alternative pain relief methods.

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"It may take a little of researching to reconcile own attitudes toward pain and your philosophy as to what type of birth experience you want. Epidural anesthesia uses some doses of a local anesthetic in the epidural space of the spinal area. It numbs the nerves from the uterus and birth passage without stopping labor. A successful epidural once administered gives you no-pain awake state throughout the entire labor and birth of your baby. Epidurals provide complete relief in 85% of women, partial relief in 12%, and 3%of women will get no relief at all from an epidural."

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