Question

Tara is in her final month of pregnancy. she is writing a birth plan and would like to know how the use of epidural analgesia might impact her baby. you can tell tara that exposed newborns tend to

Answer 1

You can tell tara that exposed newborns tend to have lower Apgar scores. 

Analgesia will reduce pain in the labor, but the pain is causing the release of many hormones that will assist in labor. The absence of those hormones can make the baby have lower Apgar scores after labor.