Comments on: Why People Get An Epidural Even When They’re Not Planning On It https://pregnurse.com/unplanned-epidural/ Preparing you from bump to bassinet. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:49:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hilary Erickson, BSN, RN https://pregnurse.com/unplanned-epidural/#comment-18255 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:49:03 +0000 https://pregnurse.com/?p=11749#comment-18255 In reply to Andrew Unger MD.

I have definitely seen “fevers” in these women — although not usually over 100.4 — just a climb up to 99 or under 100. I’m not sure that an induction past 40 weeks has been show to be poor outcomes — I think it’s always up to the patient. Hopefully my channel educates people on that…

]]> By: Andrew Unger MD https://pregnurse.com/unplanned-epidural/#comment-18253 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:47:10 +0000 https://pregnurse.com/?p=11749#comment-18253 Hi Hillary, I enjoy your content – which is accurate and valuable. 🙂

Please go to http://www.epiduralfever.org to understand my mission to prevent the needless injury of many mothers and newborns from Epidural Related Maternal Fever – the commonest cause of fever in labor – almost always misdiagnosed and mistreated as chorioamnionitis.

YOU CAN HELP SPREAD THE WORD!

Also – I agree with you completely that nowadays many women are having their labors induced for VERY shaky indications – “post-dates” of a day or two being the clearest example – with bad outcomes for both Mom and newborn thereby made much more likely.

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