Saturday, February 28, 2009

UK Mothers face crackdown on epidural births

28/02/09 Sarah-Kate Templeton
© Times Online

HOSPITALS are under attack from staff and patients for trying to stop large numbers of women from having epidural painkillers during childbirth.

An epidural, an anaesthetic injected into the spine, is seen by many mothers as a welcome and legitimate way of coping with the often extreme pain of childbirth.

However, under targets now being introduced into NHS trusts,epidurals are stigmatised as abnormal. One senior obstetrician condemned the implications of this policy as a “disgrace”.

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