 So hello friends, I'm Dr. Leena Shridhan. I'm heading the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Manipal Hospital, Dwarka, New Delhi. So there is good news for all the pregnant women now that we have the facility for painless labor and everyone should opt for it. This is what I would like to say. So what is painless labor? When a lady is in labor and she is at least crossing the latent phase of labor, she can opt for something called the painless labor injection. That is the epidural energy. This involves a small injection, which is given in the backbone. It considerably reduces the amount of pain that a woman feels during labor. So on a scale of 1 to 10, if 70% of your pain is gone, then you can wear the remaining 30% and you can go in for a normal delivery. Pain is something which makes a lot of women extremely frightened and that is one of the reasons by you know, there is probably a rising trend of cesarean section these days because women don't want to opt for labor pains. So I think this is a very you know, it's a very good way of ensuring that a person has a normal delivery because if he can remove the pain factor, then she finds that it is easy to bear. A lot of people have some misconceptions about the epidural analgesia that is for painless labor that it can cause risks. You must remember that this is given by trained professionals. We have the anesthetist on call. They give this and it is well monitored. So when your pregnancy or your delivery is also being well monitored and when you take the epidural analgesia that is also being monitored, there is no reason why the risks should be any higher than what it is for any other procedure. It takes the stress away from the lady. She becomes relaxed and it also makes her more cooperative to her gynecologist. So when we tell her the patient to cooperate with us during the labor pains, she is a lot more receptive to all our talk.