They say experience is the best teacher, and for nurse practitioner and long-time labor & delivery (L&D) nurse ...

We assumed that suffering is unlikely if indicators of satisfaction were positive after childbirth. Adequate evidence of benefit in reducing pain exists for continuous labor support, baths ...

A recent study conducted by American researchers identified cluster headaches as the most excruciating pain a person can experience, surpassing labor pains, gunshot wounds, and bone fractures.

Acupuncture can ease the pain of childbirth for women and help them to relax, scientists have discovered. Women who had the alternative therapy were less likely to ask for an epidural, they said.

Having endured an induced labor with no pain medication for her first birth, an experience she described as "torture," Burton knew she wanted to approach this pregnancy differently. "I remember ...

GIVING BIRTH Throughout a pregnancy, the midwife would regularly examine the health of the mother-to-be and the fetus. During labor, medicinal plants were given to aid dilation and reduce pain.

By then I was in my third trimester, and my approaching labor was on ... she followed birth influencers who advocated breathing work and mantras to control the pain of childbirth, free of medication.

Through the art of birth photography, Dickinson-based Regina Martin captures the raw beauty, strength and emotion of ...

In summary, 4 RCTs have found that intradermal water blocks reduce severe low back pain in most laboring women without any identified side effects on the fetus or mother, except for the transient ...