Timing of epidural is up to the mother

Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 11:31 in Psychology & Sociology

When a woman is in labor, the appropriate time to give an epidural during childbirth is when she asks for it, a new study suggests. A systematic review compared early and late epidurals during labor and found that they had very similar effects.

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