EBB 18 - Painless Birth
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
If research evidence tells us how often painless birth occurs. How labor pain can be interpreted as positive or negative. How pain perception can be influenced by state of mind, environmental stress, and social support. About the complex relationship between pain relief and maternal satisfaction
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone in this podcast we're going to talk about the evidence on painless childbirth. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the |
| 0:14.6 | founder of Evidence-Based Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get |
| 0:19.3 | evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals across the world. |
| 0:25.0 | As a reminder this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:28.0 | See EBBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to the evidence-based birth podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of evidence-based birth. We are in the midst of our pain management |
| 0:45.5 | series and today I wanted to talk with you about the concept of painless childbirth. |
| 0:51.4 | If you haven't listened to it already I would highly encourage you to go |
| 0:54.4 | back and listen to EBB episode 8 all about an overview of pain management |
| 0:59.8 | during labor. Information in that podcast provides really good background info for today's |
| 1:04.6 | podcast. So when I first started sharing my podcasts and videos about pain management |
| 1:09.8 | during childbirth, some people commented on Facebook and also messaged me, asking me if I could |
| 1:15.4 | talk about the concept of pain not necessarily being part of childbirth, because some people |
| 1:21.3 | have experienced what they would consider to be painless childbirth or totally comfortable childbirth. |
| 1:27.0 | But how many people experience this phenomenon? |
| 1:30.0 | Well, my research assistant and I went down a huge rabbit hole trying to find research on the percentage of people who might experience painless childbirth. |
| 1:39.0 | A lot of the blog articles out there and newer articles reference a 1998 article published in the American |
| 1:46.7 | Journal of Nursing. So we went and actually pulled that original article. It was kind of like an |
| 1:51.4 | editorial or opinion piece that suggested that 1% of people or 1 in 100 do not experience pain during labor or childbirth. |
| 1:59.0 | Where they got that number from wasn't referenced in the text, but we went through every paper that they cited in |
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