healthmedicinet

I didn’t know what a blessing pain relief was until I had it during my son’s birth. In the Netherlands, I had to be very vocal about my desire to not feel any pain during birth. I had no time for an epidural (and I wasn’t sure I wanted one anyway), but now I am very in favour of anything that helps women feel less pain. And in France, around 90 percent of women have an epidural. In fact, as Pamela Druckerman notices, a natural births is called: “birth without an epidural”. And it’s true: in France, epidurals are extremely common- in fact, most French women do get this sort of pain relief.