• Analgesia during labor can reduce or prevent potentially adverse stress responses to the
pain of labor, including postpartum depression.• Parenteral opioids for labor analgesia work …

Background Breastfeeding is an important public health concern. High cumulative doses of
epidural fentanyl administered for labor analgesia have been reported to be associated with …

The pain associated with labour can be severe. The ideal labour analgesic does not exist
and systemic opioids provide little relief. Nausea, vomiting and sedation are common …

But this study has several limitations, some of which were acknowledged by the authors.
First, the study was limited to motivated parous women who had previous success with …

Advances in the field of labour analgesia have tread a long journey from the days of ether
and chloroform in 1847 to the present day practice of comprehensive programme of labour …

Epidural analgesia is a widely available method of pain relief in labour in Western countries.
This article analyses the various adverse outcomes of labour and birth after the …

P ain management practitioners assist with the treatment of pain in a variety of settings.
Despite the common occurrence of pain during pregnancy, major textbooks in both pain …

Objectives: To (1) compare breastfeeding with control (placebo, no treatment, sucrose,
glucose, pacifiers, or positioning) and (2) compare breastmilk with control for procedural …

Pain in labor is a nearly universal experience for childbearing women. A recent evidence-
based symposium on the nature and management of labor pain brought together family …

Obstetric anesthesia has evolved over the course of its history to encompass comprehensive
aspects of maternal care, ranging from cesarean delivery anesthesia and labor analgesia to …