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ailbheThe plumber is here dismantling the bathroom. He's being very industrious. Today the tiles are all coming down and the bath is being replaced, then tomorrow the sink and loo, I think. Emer thinks it's interesting but would prefer everything to stay unchanged, possibly everywhere, for ever. Linnea is less interested.
This morning there was a but on BBC Radio 4 about the ever-increasing use of epidurals and the presenter tried to change it from two people who basically agreed with each other to an argument about a man telling women the pain is necessary and they shouldn't be allowed etc. I ended up crying so now have an SF movies soundtrack playing instead, which is much less stressful.
Epidurals: women wouldn't choose them nearly as much if they were getting adequate midwifery care, and anyone trying to reduce access to epidurals without first fixing the actual problem needs to be poked firmly in the snoot. Both experts on the radio today agreed with me, in spite of the presenter trying to get them to argue.
You must, as Doctor Latchford says, expect some discomfort after childbirth. However, as Mister Smith The Antipodean Gynaecologist says, If it hurts that much we must fix it. That goes for during childbirth too.
This morning there was a but on BBC Radio 4 about the ever-increasing use of epidurals and the presenter tried to change it from two people who basically agreed with each other to an argument about a man telling women the pain is necessary and they shouldn't be allowed etc. I ended up crying so now have an SF movies soundtrack playing instead, which is much less stressful.
Epidurals: women wouldn't choose them nearly as much if they were getting adequate midwifery care, and anyone trying to reduce access to epidurals without first fixing the actual problem needs to be poked firmly in the snoot. Both experts on the radio today agreed with me, in spite of the presenter trying to get them to argue.
You must, as Doctor Latchford says, expect some discomfort after childbirth. However, as Mister Smith The Antipodean Gynaecologist says, If it hurts that much we must fix it. That goes for during childbirth too.
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Date: 2009-07-13 10:35 am (UTC)The guy on the radio this morning sounded fairly reasonable and wouldn't be drawn on the rites of passage thing that the interviewer wanted him to say. He did say that the things that happen in normal labour include things which make the pain manageable, and he point blank refused to say that women should be prevented from having epidurals - it was more that the over-use of them leads to more intervention and the complications aren't negligible.
I actually like "normal" labour - it's loaded but I like it that way. Admittedly I had a distinctly abnormal labour so I'm biased against active management, as they say, and all the rest.
And personally, the post-syntocinon "pain" was nastier and less manageable than pre-induction, for me. I had an epidural but could still feel a lot of what was going on, and it was different in quality to what went before, and felt less productive, though that's almost certianly because I was lying down so the head was tipped off the cervix.
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Date: 2009-07-13 11:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-13 07:32 pm (UTC)