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Childbirth needs more than the 1950s epidural
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Childbirth needs more than the 1950s epidural

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Imagine being told that the most recent 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 w…

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