Epidural analgesia is a widely used method for pain relief during labor, providing significant comfort to many women during childbirth. It involves the administration of anesthetic agents into the ...

Epidurals can reduce the risk of serious complications for mothers during childbirth, a study of more than half a million Britons found. Those who had the pain relief had a smaller chance ...

There are a lot of reasons this pain-management procedure is used by two-thirds of laboring moms. Here’s how an epidural works and how to decide if it’s right for you.

Epidurals cause permanent back pain: Research indicates that persistent back pain after childbirth is more likely due to normal physiological changes during pregnancy than to epidural administration.

If you’re worried about holding your baby because of the shakes, she advises that birth partners can hold the baby “close to ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government will subsidize the cost of “painless delivery,” the use of an epidural or other anesthetics during childbirth, for Tokyo residents starting in fiscal 2025.

Parents who have experienced C-sections and epidurals during birth are discussing a little-known side effect of such medical procedures: the shakes. In a video on Instagram, obstetrician Dr Brooke ...

According to an August 2023 report in NHK Japan, the country was facing a nationwide shortage of anaesthesiologists, which contributed to the low use of epidurals for pain relief during childbirth.

Objective is to examine the effect of epidural analgesia in first stage of labor on occurrence of cesarean and operative vaginal deliveries in nulliparous women and multiparous women without a ...

I cannot count the number of similarly titled Instagram reels my thumb paused over during my pregnancy ... planned a hospital birth, I was determined to go unmedicated. An epidural was an evil ...