I was asking my wife today how it's possible for a woman to have an epidural when it's bad for her to take medicine all during her pregnancy. It seems to me that the baby would still get a shot of the medicine during labor, and that had me worried that we would be doing him harm. She responded that while he would get some of the drugs into his system, it would be minimal as it takes the drugs a while to navigate the system and get into the bloodstream, and he wouldn't be exposed to them for very long.
I asked her what the drugs do, and she said that they calm her, reduce the pain she feels, and lowers her heart rate. Essentially, that's what happens to the baby as well. I guess that's why so many babies come out of the womb with that high, totally-relaxed look on their face...at least until someone slaps them out of it!
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