Advantages And Disadvantages Of Pain Management

During the child birth a woman can get different sorts of pain management, with medicines or without medicines.

Only the hospital is allowed to give a patient pain medication. This is because all the medicines have an effect on the woman and her baby, so the woman and her child need to be observed. There are different kinds of pain management with medicines and all of them have different advantages and disadvantages, namely:

Kind of pain medication Advantages Disadvantages
Nitrous oxide emissions or laughing gas:
During a contraction a woman can give herself some laughing gas through a mouth/nose mask. After the contraction the mask will be removed and the administration will stop. - The woman can give laughing gas to herself.
- You can get laughing gas at a birth centre.
- Laughing gas works fast.
- Laughing gas has no disadvantages for the baby.
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A water injections works for 1 to 2 hours and it can be repeated as many times as the woman wants. - It subsides the pain in the lower back very well.
- Most of the times it works fast.
- There are no side effects for the woman or her baby.
- Water injections can quickly be administered.
- Water injections are always and everywhere applicable. - The injections hurt and the place where the injections have been placed can hurt a couple of minutes.
Acupuncture:
On certain points needles will be placed. The points are in connection with your organs. Placing needles creates a balance in your body whereby the pain subsides. - There is less need for pain medication.
- The woman is more relaxed so she has less pain.
- There is less chance of a vaginal assisted birth.
- There are no side effects or consequences for the woman or her baby. - It has to be done before giving birth.
- Health carers need a special education to be allowed to give acupuncture.
- The insurance does not always reimburse the costs.