>Date:    Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:00:19 -0700
>From:    "C. Ione Sims CNM/MSN/IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Ativan
 I was very surprised
>to find that a physician I know uses this drug for that purpose rather
>frequently, especially as I have taught that morphine is usually the best
>medication if one really needs to use a med in this situation.
>
>Ione Sims, CNM, IBCLC
>
Just a thought here,  Morphine makes me throw up!  After one shot, I vomited
for 12 hours, thus going into REAL labor dehydrated.  I had surgery a
several years later and made them promise not to give me morphine.  It was
given anyway and I was extremely sick.

Kay Hagan-Haller
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