Epidurals Linked to Breastfeeding Difficulties
December 11, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Breastfeeding
If you’ve just given birth and you’re having trouble breastfeeding, it could be a short lived problem related to the epidural.
The Times, via the Unison.ie news portal (registration required) reported that women who have epidurals during labour are more likely to have problems breastfeeding. Researchers from Sydney University studied 1280 women who had recently given birth. 416 of them had epidurals.
