Patient's question:
Hello expert, could you help me explain what exactly and are? Is it the same as natural childbirth?Doctor's answer:
??The painless childbirth we usually refer to is actually called labor analgesia in medicine. It is a method to reduce or even eliminate the pain during childbirth. There are two methods: one is pharmacological, which involves the use of anesthetics or analgesics to achieve analgesic effects. This is what we now call painless childbirth. The other method is non-pharmacological, which involves prenatal training, guidance on breathing during uterine contractions, and other techniques to alleviate labor pain. During childbirth, massaging the painful areas or using traditional Chinese acupuncture can also relieve the pain to varying degrees, which also falls under non-pharmacological labor analgesia.