Synopsis
Requests from pregnant women asking for epidurals has doubled over the last 20 years.
- Programme: The Midwives
- Series: 2
- Episode: 05: No Pain, No Gain
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2013
- Nursing & Midwifery | The Role of the Midwife during Labour and Birth
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