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Table 3 Women’s preferences* and women’s used pain relief

From: Dutch women in midwife-led care at the onset of labour: which pain relief do they prefer and what do they use?

   

Used method of medicinal pain relief

   

Epidural

Pethidine or remifentanil

No medication

  

No (%)

No (%)

No (%)

No (%)

Preference

Medication

233 (15.9)

35 (15.0)

24 (10.3)

174 (74.7)

 

No medication

1231 (84.1)

109 (8.9)

70 (5.7)

1052 (85.5)

 

Total

1464

144 (9.8)

94 (6.4)

1226 (83.8)

  1. *Missing ‘women’s preferences’ n = 47.