Elfanie wrote:

Since an intrathecal is the exact same thing as a Spinal ... I'd be
surprised if your hospital had anyone but an anesthesiologist or nurse
anesthetist administering one.

It is weird that they would do an interthecal and not an epidural then.
Maybe the difference was the medication used? I'm 100% sure they did not
have an anesthesiologist on staff. They only did surgeries (including
c-sections) on scheduled days when one came in from out of town. If you
needed an emergency c-section they flew you out. Maybe a nurse anesthetist
can do interthecals but not surgeries or epidurals??? I'm so interested I'd
call and ask but they have one now :-)

I think interthecal is very misleading as a name then. The child birth
class nurse went on and on about how much better they were then epidurals
etc. Had the word 'spinal' been used I'm sure the reception would not have
been so great :-0.

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Nikki
Mama to Hunter (5) and Luke (3)