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Demerol and Stadol are alive and well here - fooey! An informal survey of my
childbirth class attending reunions from 1989-92 suggests that about 85% of
mothers wish they hadn't bothered with those drugs, and only 15% liked the
results. Most said they got groggy but had just as much pain, and couldn't
concentrate to do the non-pharmaceutical pain relief techniques they had
learned in class.
Linda Smith, wondering how athletes cope with pain of muscle contractions
without Stadol? The uterus is a muscle, after all - keep it oxygenated and
fed, and not interfered-with, and most of the pain goes away. Posture
adjustments and counterpressure handles most sacral pain nicely. Who makes
money when moms don't use drugs to birth??
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