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(KSL News) -- Too many women are too eager and too willing to have an epidural to dampen the pain of childbirth. That's according to a british midwife association.
They say pregnant women are becoming reliant on anesthetics and could beincreasing their need for medical intervention.
Louise Silverton, Royal College of Midwives: "We believe that experiencing pain and understanding that pain in childbirth is productive pain, is important for the transistion for women from woman to mother."
Around one in five mothers now has an epidural, an injection into the spine that takes away feeling from the lower part of the body.
