No. I don't think women should pay for anything at all. Though anecdotally I needed no other labour analgesia other than entonox maybe my pain threshold is higher than others. It seems very unfair that because a woman feels pain perhaps more intensely than another that she would then have to pay. It would make us no better than a developing country sending family members off to find the money to pay for penicillin!

Though I understand the principle, as research suggests that epidural analgesia begins a cascade of intervention often resulting in instrumental/ c/s delivery and sadly this equates to cost (putting it simply) I will never agree to women paying for any aspect of their care, much as I want to promote normality sometimes it simply isn't possible

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