and that there's no point "suffering" and you wouldn't have a tooth drilled without pain releif etc etc. I can see the sense in that.
But what if your reasons for avoiding pain releif are to try and minimise some of the side effects from these drugs - nausea vomiting and dizziness from Entonox or Pethidine (Demerol)? Slowing down of labour? Fever, shivers, sickness and loss of mobility from epidural and the increased chance of needing assisted delivery/acceleration/caesarian?
Can proponents of medicated childbirth accept that some women have suffered really badly from side effects from these drugs and might want to try and avoid them to escape these side effects?
I'm still trying to make up my mind about the whole thing (my baby's due in December) but it seems that in the great "to drug or not to drug" debate people assume those who want to "go natural" are pain junkies/treehuggers rather than realise that they may just be worried about the side effects from these drugs?
2006-08-24
04:19:23
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