Epidurals are the most frequently used method for pain relief during childbirth — 61% of people having a vaginal delivery opt for them. An epidural is an injection of local anesthetic given into ...

China said that by the end of this year all tertiary level hospitals must offer epidural anesthesia during childbirth, a move ...

the unmedicated birth experience that I'd hoped for slowly began to unravel. When the epidural was offered late into labor, I didn't think I had a choice but to take it Hours after I was admitted ...

With only 30 per cent of Chinese women currently receiving pain relief during labour, China moves to close the gap and make ...

including an epidural,” she adds. “People have this idea that having an unmedicated birth is better and makes them more powerful and more motherly,” Dr. La Toya Luces-Sampson, an OB-GYN ...

The country began piloting the expansion of childbirth anesthesia at 912 hospitals across 30 provincial-level regions in 2018. At those hospitals, the prevalence of pain relief use rose from 27.5 ...

Researchers have found in a new study that Epidural analgesia is not directly linked to increased postpartum blood loss. However, it is more commonly used in high-risk obstetric cases, which ...