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Drug-free birth.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)

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Byline: Julie Deardorff

CHICAGO _ A week before my second baby was due, I told my hair stylist I'd be skipping the epidural.

Angie, who was also pregnant, looked alarmed. "No way," she said, thinking about her own birth plan. "I'd be way too scared."

Still, I didn't push a drug-free experience. After all, during labor with my first son, I thought women who eschewed epidurals were trying to be martyrs. I agreed to the pain-killers long before really feeling any serious pain.

But now I wish I'd told Angie the other side: that birth is natural and very doable without medication. It hurts like hell, of course, but our bodies are exquisitely designed for childbirth. And there are plenty…

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