"100 milligrams" a small dose ????? sounds huge to me, we give 100 micrograms, with the initial epidural block and only occasionally more with topups.
I agree with Rachel, at the hospital where I work we have a high LSCS rate (30%), and a high epidural rate BUT a high breastfeeding rate too.

            
Louise Dimmock McLeod
RN Midwife IBCLC
Meadowbank, NSW, Australia
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