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Patient-controlled epidural analgesia

A dosing method where the laboring person can press a button for preset epidural medication doses within safety limits.

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Epidural natural and medication preferences

Epidural natural and medication preferences

Reframing the choice The language around birth often divides people into natural birth or medicated birth, but the clinical reality is more nuanced. Some people want an unmedicated vaginal birth if labor is manageable, but also want rapid access to an epidural if exhaustion, induction intensity, back labor, or anxiety becomes overwhelming. Others prefer an […]