About this episode

Angie Rosier discusses the role of epidurals in labor pain management and encourages a calmer conversation around pain relief options.

Send us Fan Mail Epidurals get talked about like a scoreboard, and that mindset can steal your peace before labor even starts. I want a calmer, clearer conversation one that treats pain relief as a tool, not a test of strength, and helps you build a labor pain management plan you can actually live with when things get real. From my lens as a doula with more than 20 years in a busy practice, we walk through what an epidural is (and how it differs from a spinal or a combined spinal epidu...

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Host: Angie Rosier

Topics covered

• epidurals
• labor pain management
• pain relief
• doula support
• childbirth education

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