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But we’re not talking c sections. We are taking anaesthesiolgists and pain control. Keep up with the topic at hand.

Pain control is a totally different type of intervention than a c section. Pain control is not saving a life, it’s helping quality of life. You don’t want to acknowledge it but there is a difference. And that’s why the hazards are different. [/quote]
I'm the PP who kicked off the discussion of the link between epidurals and possible reductions in infant and maternal mortality. I don't know the extent to which this has been studied.

I absolutely know that both of my children got stuck in my birth canal, leading to hours of pushing. In my son's case, he also had a cord wrap and experienced HR decelerations (that were ultimately controlled). Without an epidural, there is no way I could have vaginally delivered him with a nurse and a midwife literally tugging on my vagina for an hour to help him get out from under my pubic bone. I would have fainted in pain. Instead, the OB would have had to push him all the way back up in and deliver him by C-section. A code they started to call twice during my delivery, until I was able to calm down and actively start making long enough pushes to help him progress down the birth canals. The epidural, in my case, was empowering and allowed me to actively participate in making my son's birth safer for both of us.

You have an outdated understanding of the information mothers have as they approach the delivery of their children. We are not being put in twilight sleep, and we understand the relative risks of many options. I live in California, which I think has an overall more progressive approach to maternal care...but I started my first pregnancy in DC (with a male OB no less), and I did not feel talked down to there either. Of course improvements are needed, but your position is at least as extreme as that of the people you are railing against.[/quote]

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