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Local analgesic - An analgesic is a drug that relieves pain. Pain-relieving drugs can be given to a woman during labor and delivery locally through a needle inserted into a muscle (intra-muscular) or under the skin (subcutaneous).
If drugs are used, what type do you prefer - regular or local analgesics, or anesthesia, sedatives, tranquilizers, narcotics, or epidural?
Up until 1986, most medical practitioners were convinced that infants cannot feel pain, which is why operations such as circumcision were performed without anesthesia. Today, even though circumcisions are performed using local analgesics, ...
This is often done to aid in forceps and vacuum extraction placement for instrument assisted births. This procedure may require a local analgesic or other anesthetic option such as a spinal, epidural, pudendal, paracervical, or local in the perineum.
 See also: Analgesic, Pregnancy, Midwife, Delivery, Oxygen
  
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