Miserable Labor Pain? Myths and Nursing Care

[[abstract]]疼痛是生產過程中常見且健康的生理現象，然而一般大眾及醫護人員對生產疼痛卻普遍存在病態的觀點，充滿著折磨、酷刑、痛苦等負向感受，而忽略它也包含保護、新生命、期待、目的、準備、進展等正面作用。由於生產疼痛的經驗與感受對於婦女日後情緒的健康、母嬰關係有深遠的影響，並可能影響母職任務的發展。因此，本文除了介紹常見的生產疼痛之迷思、疼痛感受的三階段外，並期許大家以一種感恩正向的思維來省思生產疼痛的意義，進而學習與疼痛為伴的態度來處理生產所造成的疼痛不適。 Pain is a common, normal, and healthy physical phenomenon during childbirth. However, widely held public and clinical perspectives treat pain as a pathologic process and consider labor pain in a negative context. These perspectives ignore the positive effects of pain in the domains of protection, new life, expectation, purpose, preparation, and progression. The pain interpretation and pain experience of new mothers deeply impact their mental health, maternal-infant relationship, and transition to motherhood. This paper introduces the common myths related to labor pain, the three stages of pain transmission, and the current approaches to pain management. The authors hope childbirth caregivers may accept labor pain as a meaningful, pleasant, and positive gift, which is the first and most important step toward effective pain management