Another Reason to Skip the Muffin-Top Tattoo

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| Fri Sep. 21, 2007 10:34 AM PDT

Which hurts more, getting a tattoo or giving birth without drugs?

The Wall Street Journal ($) reports this week that there's some evidence to suggest that those ever-so-popular lower-back tattoos may cause complications from spinal epidurals given for pain-relief during childbirth. Unless they plan someday to make do with hee-breathing, young women contemplating the needle might want to forgo the permanent pink butterfly...

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