Study finds no reason for expectant mothers to shy away from early epidurals
... "In addition, the babies whose mothers had early epidurals had a decreased incidence of having a below normal...hat found an association between the initiation of epidurals early in labor and an increased cesarean delivery rate. "We hypothesized that the findings of these......re is no riskier than an epidural, Meloy says. But epidurals can cause complications such as backache in up to a fifth of women. In the second stage, a self-contained device resembling a pacemaker will be implanted beneath the skin, switched on and off with a remote control. Meloy, a pain specialist at Piedmo...