Think about when you stub your toe or you hit your knee on the side of the bed or whatever and your first instinct right is to

Ow Tense up because that's our natural response to pain is to tense up and be like, oh, right?

Because it hurt.

But we actually need to do the opposite in labor

and relax and give into that pain. You're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast where you'll gain the tools, knowledge, and confidence you need to erase the unknowns, feel

in control, and have an even better birth and no matter how you deliver.

My name is Liesel Teen, Mom of Two, practicing labor and delivery nurse, and your host.

From over eight years in counting of working at the bedside, I know that knowledge is the key

to an even better birth.

So tune in each week to learn about all things pregnancy, birth, and postpartum from me,

a labor and delivery nurse that's seen it all. And now let's get into this week's

episode. Welcome back to the mommy labor nurse podcast. Did you know that an

estimated 71%?

71% that's a lot of all births in the US are with

epidurals?

Yeah.

And some hospitals cite stats of over 90% yeah of all births involving

epidural use of all of their births involving epidural use.

Yet other polls and surveys of pregnant women across the US show that over 80% of mamas hope to birth without an epidural.

So, like what kids? Like, there's some kind of disconnect, disconnect right but let me be the first to say

that there is nothing nothing wrong with epidurals okay or C sections for that

matter both are incredible labor interventions and I see women all the time at the

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