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This is an imaginary conversation between
two methods of pain management during
an imaginary normal physiologic childbirth.
"Physiologic Breathing" and "Epidural"
compare and contrast their similarities and
differences.
(c) Cathie Dolores Morales 2008
Founder Auntie Natal/1980 All Rights Reserved
Part 1
Introductions
Epidural Anesthesia
Epidural anesthesia is a medical procedure and treatment
to take away the pain of labor and birth.
Epidural anesthesia has risks and benefits that are
important to understand as part of informed consent when
choosing a method of pain management. Epidural
anesthesia uses repeated doses of a local anesthetic in
the epidural space of the spinal area. It numbs the nerves
from the uterus and birth canal.
Physiologic Breathing
Physiologic breathing is not a medical treatment.
Physiologic breathing has no known risks. Physiologic
breathing has many benefits. Physiologic breathing is the
way you breathe normally, using your abdomenal muscles
and diaphragm, to breath into your belly. (shallow chest
breathing is not physiologic breathing). Physiologic
breathing changes according to the amount of work or
rest your body is doing. Physiologic breathing does not
numb you.
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