Birth pain represents a great problem for about 20% of childbearing women that due to unsupportable pain cooperate poorly or do not cooperate at all. Stress caused by pain influences birthing process and the state of fetus. Continuous epidural analgesia (EA) provides many advantages in comparison to other techniques to relieve birth pain. Use of EA has significantly increased in the world over the last 10 years. While everyone agrees that EA reduces the intensity of birth pain, everything else is still a subject of a lively debate. Particularly controversial are results of the research...