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.
無痛分娩 (painless delivery) typically involves epidural anesthesia and aims for minimal pain, while 和痛分娩 reduces pain without epidurals.
自然分娩 (natural childbirth) avoids medical pain relief altogether, unlike 和痛分娩 which uses non-epidural analgesics.
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.