I'm watching a US show about delivering babies and it never ceases to amaze me how routine medical intervention is over there. It seems rare to go through labour without an epidural and c-sections seem a lot more common. Also they start induction earlier than we do and don't like women going overdue at all. I'm not sure how wide spread this kind of care is across the US but from what I gather the rate of intervention is much higher over there.
Do you think it's literally just a funding issue that means the NHS push for natural delivery with limited pain relief? Personally I'm glad they do because I feel where possible an intervention free birth is ideal and after being pushed to have an epidural with DS1 simply because of raised bmi I have experience of how this can lead to more intervention (epidural stopped contractions and they had to induce my labour with a hormone drip/break my waters to get things going again). Obviously I'm not suggesting intervention is a bad thing in all cases as it can be life saving but I feel watching this show they really over use it.
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Would there be more medical intervention over here if the NHS had better funding?
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thecakeisalie · 10/12/2013 20:51
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