Today’s Parent quoted Roanne Preston, division head of obstetric anesthesia and the department head of anesthesiology, pharmacology and therapeutics at UBC, in an article about the safety of tattoos during pregnancy.
Preston said it is safe to get an epidural if you have a tattoo on your back. “If a clear space is not available, then we make a small incision in the skin in order to minimize the likelihood of displacing small amounts of skin with tattoo ink further into the tissues of the back, and most importantly into the epidural space, via the epidural needle,” she said.