Friday, July 21, 2006

Epidural

"There are two ways in which epidural drugs may affect a baby's brain. They can enter the fetus's bloodstream and directly influence brain function; and they can affect some aspect of the mother's physiology, or the progress of labour, that indirectly influences the baby's well being."
- extracts from : What's Going on In There?

Sounds interesting. I had not known about this, all I wanted was to ease my "hyperventilating breathing" - and like the lessons learnt in antenatal class was of no use.

Epidurals : Real risk for mother and baby

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