In case you ladies want to read more about this... It was published a few days ago i the (respectable) BMC Medicine, an article called
More in hope than expectation: Women's experience and expectations of pain relief in labour: A review
Link to the abstract is here, you can download also the full article:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/6/7/abstract
The conclusions for this study are:
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| Women may have ideal hopes of what they would like to happen with respect to pain relief, control and engagement in decision making, but expectations are often very different from experience. Antenatal educators need to ensure that pregnant women are appropriately prepared for what might actually happen to limit this expectation-experience gap and potentially support greater satisfaction with labour. | |
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And i bail out from this thread - i am not a mother and have little hope of becoming one.