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>Your final comment is that in areas where epidurals
>are common we do not see breastfeeding problems.
Ah, Pam, I said 'we don't *necessarily* see breastfeeding problems'.
Scandinavian women have epidurals routinely - far more (from what I
gather) than mothers in the UK.
But there is a lot more bf in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland!
What I am getting at is the difficulty of isolating the epidural from
all other labour and birth interventions, and that does not mean,
cannot mean, comparing unmedicated home birth with a full-on,
bells-a-clangin', whistles-a-blowin'
lie-on-your-back-with-your-legs-in-stirrups-and-have-this-epidural
hospital birth .
It may be that an epidural coupled with a bf culture and fewer
interventions is ok for bf - that the bf culture and the lack of
other interventions make up for any physiological effect of the
epidural.
At the moment, I can't see how we know one way or the other.
I am a bit sad when I see epidural birth as the norm, because I
really do think it medicalises birth, and the result is that an
experience becomes a process.
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor
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