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Breast-Feeding Not Affected by Walking Epidural.

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| July 01, 2001 | Splete, Heidi | COPYRIGHT 2001 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SAN DIEGO -- Babies of mothers who received an ultralow-dose "walking" epidural showed no negative effects in their ability or willingness to breast-feed, Dr. Sue Reid said at the annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology.

Based on these findings, "women shouldn't be told that problems associated with breast-feeding are caused by epidurals, especially with the low doses," Dr. Reid said in 'an interview.

Previous reports of breast-feeding problems in babies whose mothers received epidurals could have stemmed from fluid preloading before epidural placement causing areolar edema, a practice that is unnecessary with low-dose epidurals, said Dr. Reid of the Grey Nuns Community Hospital and Health Centre, Edmonton, Alta.

In a single-blind observational study, the researchers compared infants whose mothers had received an ultralow-dose epidural with those whose mothers ...

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