"Lonilu" (would be nice if you could sign your name) writes that "We do alot of epidurals on our unit (90%)." I find this profoundly depressing. Anyone else find the figure of only 1 out of 10 women delivering without the aid of anesthetic disturbing and distressing? I'm glad to be living in the boonies and hope this trend doesn't move north! Maybe it's like this in the urban hospitals in Canada, but somehow I doubt it. Leslie Ayre-Jaschke, BEd, IBCLC Peace River, Alberta, Canada