To find it tactless to tell a pregnant woman that epidurals can cause paralysis?

[DrSeuss]

Yes, I know they can. I checked and there is around a 1:250 000 chance which, when you think about what it actually involves, is unsurprising.

However, DH cannot see that it inappropriate for my MIL to keep saying this to his pregnant cousin. Hopefully, she won't need one but if she has to have a section, there will be no choice. How will it help her to have her aunt's voice in her head telling her she may now be paralysed?

Thoughts?

We just got home from a holiday in a highly Westernised area of the Arabic speaking world last week so that got her going, saying about how she had been so worried about the threat of terrorism! We just avoid telling her things most of the time. As you say, it's amusing for a while but after twenty years it wears a little thin. She says I am so lucky not to worry all the time. Not true, I worry about many things as I am sur do most working mums, I just don't need attention badly enough to have to tell the world!