delivery with pain relief (excluding epidurals)
Medical term for childbirth using pain-reducing drugs other than epidural anesthesia. Contrasts with 無痛分娩 (painless delivery, often with epidural) and 自然分娩 (natural childbirth).
In delivery with pain relief, analgesic methods other than epidural anesthesia are used.
She chose delivery with pain relief and eased the pain during childbirth.
Compound of 和 (わ, 'ease, soften') + 痛 (つう, 'pain') + 分娩 (ぶんべん, 'delivery, childbirth'). The term is a modern medical coinage.