The woman who feels she needs something will be the first to tell you her relief is not off-limits. As an obstetrician I can tell you that all I care about is getting a healthy baby and mother out of all this. There are certain guidelines expected of me to get to my goal, and as far as I'm concerned, the parents are the boss for everything else. For others it may be a terrible idea. Yet many who have put in a good faith effort to try it have a lot of pressure on them to try longer than they should.
Political correctness has no place in the labor and delivery suite.
The delivery on one's child should be a memorable event, not an ordeal. Forgive me for saying it again, but it's not how you have the baby, it's how you raise the baby. All rights reserved.