Childbirth needs more than the 1950s epidural
Plus: 🎥 Florence Pugh 😷 period flu 🥚 Mood-boosting foods
Imagine being told that the most recent major innovation in childbirth care was the epidural… and it was popularised in the US in the 1950s.
Professor Marina Gerner writes that she was told this when she was researching her book - which thankfully is about the femtech boom poised to revolutionise our understanding of the female body, without waiting around for decades before it does.
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