A woman has requested an epidural for her pain. She is 5 cm dilated and 100 effaced. The baby is in ...

A woman has requested an epidural for her pain. She is 5 cm dilated and 100 effaced. The baby is in a vertex position and is engaged.
 
  The nurse increases the woman's intravenous fluid for a preprocedural bolus. She reviews her laboratory values and notes that the woman's hemoglobin is 12 g/dL, hematocrit is 38, platelets are 67,000, and white blood cells (WBCs) are 12,000/mm3. Which factor would contraindicate an epidural for the woman?
  a. She is too far dilated. c. She has thrombocytopenia.
  b. She is anemic. d. She is septic.