和わ痛つう分ぶん娩べん

noun

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).

See also: 自然分娩 · 無痛分娩

• 和わ痛つう分ぶん娩べんでは、硬こう膜まく外がい麻ま酔すい以い外がいの鎮ちん痛つう法ほうが用もちいられる。

  In delivery with pain relief, analgesic methods other than epidural anesthesia are used.

• 彼かの女じょは和わ痛つう分ぶん娩べんを選えらんで、出しゅっ産さん時じの痛いたみを和やわらげた。

  She chose delivery with pain relief and eased the pain during childbirth.