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I started working in the field of labor and delivery as a Registered Nurse in 1975, well before consistent fetal monitoring, epidurals, fathers in delivery rooms, birthing rooms - when the stages of labor were determined by the sweat on a mom's upper lip, the curl of her toes and the tone of her screams. Well, some things haven't changed.
Now there are birthing balls, birthing beds, birthing plans, water births, hypnobirths and epidurals - makes you wonder what giving birth will be like in another 30 years.