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Date: | Thu, 20 Nov 1997 03:48:28 -0500 |
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>mothers who
>deliver in hospitals are generally treated as if they are ill. Hence the need
>for the IVs,,hydration and rehydration.
And hence, I think, the "need" for so many pain meds. My best analogy for
the pain of labor (my pain, at least) is the time I had to help carry a
heavy, floppy mattress several blocks up a steep hill and then stairs. I
almost cried from frustration and exertion and pain. But if someone had
walked up to me with a hypodermic and asked me if I wanted pain relief, I'd
have thought he was nuts. It just wasn't that kind of pain. Stick me in a
hospital, give me the exact same kind of pain, and "pain relief" suddenly
wouldn't seem so out-of-place.
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY
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