Acute pain and analgesic requirement after vaginal childbirth with and without neuraxial labor analgesia-Retrospective cohort study.

Although women who used neuraxial labor analgesia had slightly higher pain scores and increased analgesic requirement during postpartum hospitalization, pain after vaginal childbirth was overall mild. The small elevation in the pain burden in neuraxial group does not seem to be clinically relevant and should not influence women's choice to receive labor analgesia.