Pat wrote:

<I was teaching childbirth ed classes about the time that epidurals came
on
the scene.  First you had to be in a decent size hospital, 2nd it had to
be
day time and the anest couldn't be busy in OR.  Then someone made the
dollar discovery and it has been all downhill ever since.>

My experience exactly, Pat. Hadn't happened when spinals, caudals, and
pudendals were done by OB's with a nurse anesthetist (occasionally) asked
to monitor the patient.

I noticed there was some connection also between the sudden interest
hospitals began to take in providing their own childbirth classes (over
which physicians could more successfully exert some form of control about
what could be said) and the demise of the independent childbirth
education organization in our town. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" in
"serving the parent market!"

Now, many parents see absolutely no reason even to take childbirth
classes since they know so many friends and relatives who have had
epidurals, and expect one practically as they enter L&D.

Thereby losing one great source of prenatal breastfeeding information!

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio

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