分娩痛之所以重要，涉及以下几个方面：其中之一，大多数产妇在产程中经历严重痛苦。另一方面，对于分娩痛的性质、机制和影响因素以及控制产痛的方法等，在大众甚至一些医生当中，存在着许多错误和混淆的观点。因此，一些产妇和产科医生拒绝任何形式的镇痛方法，因而，只能任凭由于疼痛所诱发的有害影响因素的发生，而导致母婴并发症增加，有时，甚至引起死亡。第三方面，越来越多的研究证明，正确应用产科镇痛和麻醉，可使疼痛大大缓解，不仅不增加母婴死亡率，反而可使其降低。 The reason why labor pain is so important involves the following aspects: One of them, most of the women experience severe pain during labor. On the other hand, there are many mistakes and confusions among the general public and even some doctors about the nature, mechanism and influencing factors of childbirth pain and ways to control the pain. As a result, some mothers and obstetricians reject any form of analgesia and, as such, can only lead to increased and sometimes even fatal maternal-infant complications due to the occurrence of adverse effects induced by pain. Thirdly, more and more researches prove that the correct application of obstetric analgesia and anesthesia can greatly relieve the pain, which can not only reduce the maternal and infant mortality rate but reduce it.