Abstract

Introduction: The pain of childbirth is often rated by women as being most painful experience of their lives. It is estimated that about two third of normal healthy pregnant women, suffer severe intolerable pain during labour and only 2% describe it as little or no discomfort. There are several factors which influence parturition pain and its severity varies widely. It is influenced by parity, primiparous women experience more pain during early labour while multiparous women feel greater pain in the second stage

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