Sensible pain relief or disturbing a natural process?
The epidural may have recently been shown to be medically safer than was previously thought, but in the midst of the ongoing debate about “normal” birth and the role of midwives and obstetricians, what place should it have in childbirth? Should a woman be able to request one early in labour and not be questioned, or should it be a measure of last resort? Jenni talks to Belinda Phipps, the Chief Executive of the National Childbirth Trust and to Smriti Singh, who recently had her second child with epidural.
