Using your own criteria, you can request information from a database of 900 area physicians who have registered to participate. We would be happy to assist you in scheduling an appointment with a member of the hospital's medical staff. My patients often ask me about pain control early in their course of prenatal visits. My approach is to discuss all the options a woman has. Since there is no way to predict what kind of labor any particular woman is likely to have, decisions need to be made as the woman is experiencing her labor.
Some women have very efficient labors.
They push well and deliver their babies within a few hours. They may do well with a variety of supportive techniques we've found to be helpful such as massage, showers, birthing balls and intradermal injections of saline to help back pain. Other women have prolonged, painful, exhausting labors. They may choose to have pain medication. Epidurals are currently the most frequently administered form of pain relief.