Our three local hospitals that are under one corporate umbrella have only  
8-9% of mothers who do not have epidurals.  They don't adjust the  percentage 
for the number who don't make it to the hospital in time but who  wanted 
epidurals as soon asa they arrived.  As recently as last week, I  again had a mother 
tell me that the staff told her she'd better hurry up and get  hers because if 
she didn't the anesthesiologist wouldn't be on any longer.   They are often 
also told that "You might as well have it now because it's only  going to get 
worse", and other sorts of terrifying threats.  I applaud the  mothers who tell 
me on intake that they had unmedicated births (many who have  them don't 
think it is medicine and answer negatively to whether or not they had  medications 
for their birth--that's not 'educated').  The mothers who have  made it 
through birth without have not only managed their births, but also been  remarkable 
in their endurance to refuse the constant barrage of the same  question about 
whether they want their epidural now--..."better hurry up or  it will be too 
late". AAAARGH!
I WISH also that I hadn't heard from staff that they are told that it  
requires a large number of woman to choose epidural births in order to keep an  
anesthesiologist on full time.  We have several who do only this at our  
hospitals.  They don't seem to disliske what they are doing.  It's  lucrative.  I wish 
it was like the anesthesiologist described here.  
 
Jeanne Rago



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