 Hi, I am Dr. Yashika Gudesar, I am Senior Consultant at Manipala Hospital, Dwarka. I have an experience of 18 years. Painless labour is a very frequently asked question nowadays. Most of our patients who are becoming parent for the first time ask us a lot of questions regarding painless labour. And many of our patients even don't know what painless labour is. We give them this option of painless labour because we know that they are scared and they are at the time of delivery. And they are not able to go through the pain. They can opt for a painless labour. Painless labour is given to the patient when the patient goes into active labour that is 3 centimetres dilated. And the pains are occurring if 3 to 4 contractions per minute. At that time painless labour is given and the anesthetist comes to the labour room and gives the painless labour to the patient. Injection is given in the epidural space and the catheter is poured. And in between the drug is given and the pain is relieved. The lower limb of the body and the abdomen of the patient is relieved from the pain. The patient can walk, go to the bathroom and even go through the exercises during the labour. And the pain is not totally gone but it has gone almost 70% and the benefit of painless labour is that labour fastens very fast and the patient delivers very fast. And chances of normal delivery what I have seen in my practice has almost 80%. Most of our patients get delivered with painless because they don't have a mental stress of getting the pain and the labour becomes very fast. Sometimes in the second stage the labour becomes a little delayed but for that we are there and if the patient knows about the painless labour beforehand and she pushes well then the labour becomes very fast and you never know when your delivery happened. I have had patients who were so happy they went crying and when they came back from epidural analgesia they were fine and they delivered within 1-2 hours. So I have a very positive feedback with painless labour. The most important question which most of our patients ask is whether it will harm our baby or whether it will harm our labour. But no, we should understand that there is no harm to the baby. At times there is a normal heartbeat dip which can happen otherwise also even if you have not taken the painless labour. So painless labour is a very good option. All first time parents should always think about it and even the second time parents who are not sure of the pain not being able to go through the pain they should always think about having painless labour.