About a year ago we commented on a study that said that our mothers and grandmothers gave birth faster than women now (2 hours and 40 minutes on average) largely as a result of the increase in current interventions, including epidural anesthesia.
Now, what is better, or what does a woman prefer? Because we said they gave birth faster, but we don't know if they were happier with the process then than the women of now. A recent study wanted to answer this question by trying to answer the following: Do you prefer a delivery without epidural and shorter or a birth with epidural and longer?
Study Data
The study is not to launch rockets when drawing conclusions, basically because the sample chosen is very small: 40 women who are also going to induce labor. However, it gives a clue as to where the shots might go.
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, in California, surveyed 40 women before starting contractions and 24 hours after delivery.
The result of the survey shows that most women prefer a longer, longer epidural delivery, but with less pain.
One of the questions, to give an example of how the questionnaire was, was "Would you prefer a two-point pain for nine hours or six points for three hours?", Scoring the maximum pain at 10 and the absence of pain at 0 .
Conclusions to the study
Researchers consider it curious that it is not time that worries women most, but pain, and they emphasize emphasizing that women do not choose zero pain, but the possibility of having a birth with controlled pain.
As a counterweight to this study, I remember another one we talked about a few months ago, in which 60 women were asked, after giving birth, what was their satisfaction rate after childbirth. The happiest with the process were those who had a vaginal delivery without epidural.
So it seems that this is a very personal decision of each woman and how the childbirth is lived, the pain, the duration, etc., depends a lot on each one, their expectations, their desires, the treatment received and many factors that can make your delivery great, painful, or a memory to erase, even when nothing hurt.
