Epidurals are a miracle technology
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"The risks from giving medications to birthing patients and then testing them for illicit substances have been well documented. A 2022 study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that 91 percent of women given fentanyl in their epidurals tested positive for it afterward. Other studies have found that mothers can quickly pass these medications on to their babies. A baby’s positive drug test “cannot and should not be used to identify fentanyl drug abuse in mothers,” said Athena Petrides, the lead researcher of one of the studies at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston."—Shoshana Walter
Hospitals Gave Women Medications During Childbirth—Then Reported Them for Using Illicit Drugs >
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Epidurals save lives and we should be telling our patients well before they get to the labour ward. We need to change the concept of “natural labour” - no one has failed because they had an epidural, in fact the decision to have one will help them and their babies come through what is naturally a h
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