Summary
MORE women should endure the pain of childbirth because anaesthetic drugs undermine the mother's bond with her baby, an expert said yesterday.
Dr Denis Walsh said the agony of labour should be considered a 'rite of passage' and a 'purposeful, useful thing'.See the full content of this document
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Why Mothers Should Put Up with Pain of Childbirth ; by an Expert in Midwifery (Who Just Happens to Be a Man) [Edition 2]
The pain prepared women for the demands of motherhood, he argued.
Dr Walsh, associate professor in midwifery at Nottingham University, criticised the 'epidural epidemic' sweeping the NHS, and said...See the full content of this document
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