Enjoy Your Labor: A New Approach to Pain Relief for Childbirth

Enjoy Your Labor is an informative and easy-to-read book that contains everything an expectant mother needs to know about state-of-the-art options for pain relief for labor and delivery: epidurals and spinals. Enjoy Your Labor gives readers the facts about modern pain relief techniques. It is the only book that takes the fear, mystery and guilt out of epidurals and spinals. The author develops the premise that administration of medication to relieve labor pain is a sensible approach, and he explains the reasons women can and should get an epidural before the severe pain of labor starts - if they decide they want one. The refreshing view presented in Enjoy Your Labor regarding the timing of the epidural challenges the conventional wisdom, and is a radical departure from current approaches, where women typically delay getting an epidural for as long as possible - until the pain becomes unbearable. Enjoy Your Labor empowers women with the knowledge they need to help them make an informed choice about pain relief for childbirth. The author encourages readers to advocate for themselves, and to carefully consider and discuss the management of their labor and delivery pain with their health care providers before labor begins.

Dr. Gilbert J. Grant has been Director of Obstetric Anesthesia at New York University Medical Center since 1992. He is also a faculty member of New York University School of Medicine, where he is an Associate Professor and Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs in the Department of Anesthesiology. Dr. Grant earned his MD degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1982. He then relocated to New York City, where he completed an internship in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital before moving to New York University Medical Center where he completed a residency in anesthesiology. Dr. Grant has published numerous scientific papers and chapters for medical textbooks, and he lectures at educational institutions and scientific meetings in the United States and abroad.