Hi Sharon, there is a great article with references titled 'Epidurals: real risks for mother and baby' by NZ trained GP Sarah Buckley on the birth international website available at www.acegraphics.com.au/articles/sarah02.html. Really compelling stuff on longer term morbidity for women and systemic effects on neonates. Very interesting stuff. regards, miriam
--- Mary Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't help you with any references Sharon, but I > have a question. what happens to the data when > things DO go wrong with an epidural? I have two > homebirth clients in the past couple of years who > needed to be in hospital for their births, (one for > PE & one for APH) who had long term sequelae and who > seemed not to be taken seriously by the anaesthetic > dept of our major teaching hospital. The one who > was induced for PE had an "epidural headache" for 11 > days, despite narcotic pain relief and 3 attempts at > a blood patch. She was unable to breastfeed, pick > up her baby, do any mothering at all. It finally > resolved after Bowen therapy to her back and neck. > This was necessary for more than 6 months after the > baby was born. Of course post-natal depression was > also a problem which was dealt with by complimentary > medicine, no interest from the hospital. The > anaesthetists were not really interested in her once > she left the hospital, still in severe pain and on > Tramol. No follow-up. The APH (mother of 3) was > left with severe "foot-drop", the story of the > anaesthetists interest was the same for the above. > She has long term nerve damage. Very debillitating > for a young mother of 3. I think that there may be a > lot of adverse outcomes that don't get reported or > followed-up. MM > > I was wondering is there anything to suggest that > epidurals administered during labour have long term > effects on women. such as backpain later in life I > would be interested to find this out through studies > ect I have looked on the Cochrane data base but cant > find anything to do with this. > > regards sharon Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
