by Peta Ealing Cameron

Created on: March 23, 2008   Last Updated: May 09, 2011

The process of childbirth and the decisions regarding your preferences are purely personal. The act of giving birth is both an exhausting yet a tremendously exhilarating wonderment of nature.

Every mother wants her experience of birth to be one of joy.

The decision to make will arrive at the time of your onset to the hospital. Depending on how your birth proceeds may be the judge as to whether a woman is faced with the choice of an epidural or a natural birth.

From a personal point of view, I am a very firm believer that the process of giving birth should be natural, where at all possible.

Of course, excluding serious complications, that may arise for some unforeseen emergencies, which would affect the life or health of mothers and their newborns.

The discussion of childbirth and the process of labor involved have changed dramatically over the centuries.

As with the procedure many centuries ago, there was never the technology of the newer procedures of today. Many women died in childbirth in the past, because of many unnecessary circumstances.

Today, with advanced practices in childbirth most circumstances are avoidable.

Some of the procedures available should be avoided, unless essential. The procedure of having an epidural can be a dangerous decision. Mothers in labor need to be fully aware of the process and exactly what is involved.

Commonly known practices with labour today include epidural, and cesarean sections.

Epidural is the practice of a local anesthetic given in a precise section of the spine to create numbness in the area; of pain which is involved in the process of giving birth.

It is a specialised procedure which must be administered to exaction. Any slip up in the administering can cause paralyzing in the mother.

Through out time, all women have had to bear the pain of childbirth, and have survived. Why, today the necessity for some to believe that other procedures are required is beyond me.

It is perfectly natural to have pain and the only reason I would recommend an epidural would be in cases where the distress on the child was affected and the mother in any danger for her health or life.

As with epidural and even cesarean sections should only be considered in cases, which require them for medical intervention, and not be selection of choice.

Natural birthing is the greatest life changing experience and the ability to leave the hospital feeling healthy and sooner rather than later is great.

Having an epidural or a natural childbirth is a purely personal decision according to circumstances surrounding the birth of a child.

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