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Anecdata, but I spoke to a mom here who declined an epidural during childbirth by choice. Her son is a champion big wave surfer.
by slopdetector 3mo ago
Anecdata, but I spoke to a mom here who declined an epidural during childbirth by choice. Her son is a champion big wave surfer.
- evil-olive 3mo agoare you suggesting that epidural usage or not during childbirth is correlated in some way with athletic ability of the child, decades later?
- slopdetector 3mo agoThe mother said it was a conscious decision to promote birthing a strong, resilient child, based on her belief on the matter. I have no view, but it's an interesting report, given that her kid truly is an athletic outlier.
- evil-olive 3mo agoif she was committed enough to raising a healthy child that she was willing to skip an epidural and endure hours of excruciating pain ...do you think that same commitment might have shown up in other ways in her parenting? such as in the foods she fed her child, or the activities she encouraged that child to do? man, I remember when I used to come to HN because the average intelligence level of the comments was higher than it was on reddit.
- recursivecaveat 3mo agoGiven that 20-90% of people don't receive one across various modern countries, I think we have enough regular data. Otherwise like 80% of Germans would be champion athletes if a no-epidural birth really did that for you.