Analgesia and coping with labor pain can prevent suffering during childbirth.
Nonpharmacologic methods help women manage labor pain. Strong evidence is available for
the efficacy of continuous one-to-one support from a woman trained to provide nonmedical
care during labor, immersion in warm water during first-stage labor, and sterile water
injected intracutaneously or subcutaneously at locations near a woman’s lumbosacral spine
to reduce back-labor pain.