More than 70% of women delivering at hospitals elect for an epidural or other spinal anesthesia during labor and delivery,[1]#1 and with good reason. Epidurals are considered one of the safest ...

They say experience is the best teacher, and for nurse practitioner and long-time labor & delivery (L&D) nurse ...

Epidurals to ease labor weren’t really used in the delivery room until the 1940s; during the next couple of decades, the procedure gradually began to supplant other methods used to ease birthing pains ...

In this feature, follow the stages of normal labor and delivery, and learn about potential ... a possible result of having received an epidural, an injection of anesthetic to help ease the ...

Orem Community Hospital offers labor, delivery, recover and postpartum care in the same room. The hospital recently added nitrous oxide as a pain relief option instead of an epidural during labor.

And most women know when they really get into true labor. Keith Eddleman ... it takes a little longer if you have an epidural in place. And then after delivery, the baby. You have to wait for ...

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