Baby Gaga

I clicked on the baby countdown ticker I have at the top of my blog to check out what that particular website says about baby development week to week. This is what it says about getting an epidural... I would say they are anti-epidural, what do you think?

A massive needle will be poked/jabbed into your spinal column as you're curled up in a fetal position to expose your spine - hoping they don't accidentally destroy some of your spinal nerves, which is a very real risk experienced by 20% of women.
The numbing effect of the epidural (if it works, which it might not) renders you immobile and effectively chains you to your bed, forcing you to labor and birth on your back while psychologically numbing your mind to the process at hand, inhibiting your milk let-down and interfering with the postpartum endorphin release that combats postpartum pain and depression.

I mean, really people. Be supportive of whatever a woman decides to do. It is a decision she has thought long and hard about prior to walking into that hospital. It almost made me change the ticker on my blog after I read it but it seemed too much effort to find another one and I do like the little weekly updates it gives. :-)