No Pain, No Gain?: Are We Over-Doing Epidurals?

I’m over at Politics Daily today blogging about epidurals during childbirth.

Just as Americans have been busy this week deconstructing Sonia Sotomayor’s every word, gesture and reference to “settled law,” citizens on this side of the pond have been expressing their views on a very different topic: childbirth. Earlier this week, a prominent doctor and midwife here (and not incidentally, a man) published a paper arguing that pain in childbirth is a good thing and exhorted women to have fewer epidurals during labor.

Read the rest of the article here. And feel free to weigh in here, there or in between…

Image: Rayyan_1wk_9 by Amin Ashaari via Flickr under a Creative Commons License.

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