Another interesting article (not VBAC specific)

Re: Another interesting article (not VBAC specific)

• iris427 member

  November 2012

  Interesting, thanks for sharing.

  Branch points out that up to 85 percent of contemporary laboring mothers get epidurals. "Once that's in place, they're in bed," he says. "In the late '50s and early '60s, how much did people get up out of bed during labor and walk around?"

  I thought women in the 50s and 60s were strapped down and given twilight anesthesia? 

  
  

  
  

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• Ceefome member

  November 2012

  They never define labor.  What is the defintion of labor they are using? 

  "Little seahorse/Floating on a primal tide/Quickening like a/Spark in a haystack side/I already love you/And I don't even know who you are" -Bruce Cockburn BOOKWORMS and BUTTERFLIES

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• MAprincess member

  November 2012

  iris427:

  Interesting, thanks for sharing.

  Branch points out that up to 85 percent of contemporary laboring mothers get epidurals. "Once that's in place, they're in bed," he says. "In the late '50s and early '60s, how much did people get up out of bed during labor and walk around?"

  I thought women in the 50s and 60s were strapped down and given twilight anesthesia? 

  Yes, twilight was common then.  It's possible it wasn't given until much later in labor?  And it didn't do the same thing as an epidural.  Though it had pretty bad side effects, I think.

  

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