http://www.mama-is.com/true-conversations/ Kachingling! Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:00:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.mama-is.com/true-conversations/comment-page-1/#comment-414 jess Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:19:45 +0000 http://www.mama-is.com/?p=140#comment-414 I know there's all sorts of research that says epidurals are bad, but I wonder if it's more the way they are administered so freely? After 30 hours in labour, I was med-evac'd to a larger hospital for either an epidural or a c-section... they'd see. An epidural saved me from a c-section, and now I have a beautiful, healthy, breastfed, bed-sharing 15 month old playing at my feet while I type this. I don't know if the difference is Canada (where I live) vs. the USA, or just backwoods Saskatchewan, but it seems that epidurals here are seen as a last resort. Oh, they'll try all kinds of other interventions (I blame the pitocin and fentanyl for my birth issues), but epidurals and c-sections are much less frequent here. But oh, my kingdom for a midwife! Now that midwives are supported by Health Care, maybe some will come here for my next baby. I know there’s all sorts of research that says epidurals are bad, but I wonder if it’s more the way they are administered so freely? After 30 hours in labour, I was med-evac’d to a larger hospital for either an epidural or a c-section… they’d see. An epidural saved me from a c-section, and now I have a beautiful, healthy, breastfed, bed-sharing 15 month old playing at my feet while I type this. I don’t know if the difference is Canada (where I live) vs. the USA, or just backwoods Saskatchewan, but it seems that epidurals here are seen as a last resort. Oh, they’ll try all kinds of other interventions (I blame the pitocin and fentanyl for my birth issues), but epidurals and c-sections are much less frequent here. But oh, my kingdom for a midwife! Now that midwives are supported by Health Care, maybe some will come here for my next baby.

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