Ch. 1. A brief history of pain management and anaesthesia in childbirth through the ages -- Ch. 2. The nature of childbirth pain -- Ch. 3. Preparing for childbirth pain -- Ch. 4. Working with labour: Non-pharmacological resources -- Ch. 5. Narcotics - natural and unnatural -- Ch. 6. Nitrous oxide -- Ch. 7. Epidural analgesia -- Ch. 8. Spinal anaesthesia and other local anaesthetic techniques -- Ch. 9. Anaesthesia for caesarean section