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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…
