Hack points out several myths about epidural during labor and delivery, including that it can cause paralysis. However, these ...

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 ...

Research has provided new insights into the mechanisms and management of analgesia in labor and has shed more light on the timing of epidural labor analgesia, the choice of local anesthetics ...

“Why isn’t it working?!” I yelled into the labor and delivery room, hoping someone - my doula, my husband, the nurses - would have an answer. It was 20 minutes after the anesthesiologist had ...

An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...

You know, there are some studies that show maybe the second stage is a little long with an epidural, things like that maybe the process of labor has slowed down a little bit, but the net effect on ...

The hospital has a policy of not inducing labor, which means that they have little control over the timing of births. This, in turns, meant that the timing of any epidurals that might have been ...

And most women know when they really get into true labor. Keith Eddleman ... the answer is it depends on whether or not you have an epidural in place. Sometimes it takes a little longer if ...