My cousin dropped dead after getting the clotshot but we can't draw any conclusions from that.

In any case my wife got an epidural with both deliveries and in both cases the pain vanished to the point she slept through contractions. Fuck, women have given birth while in a coma. It's a normal, natural process--there is some indication that our modern attempts to 'help' delivery are often causing worse issues, i.e. aggressive pushing instead of relying on the fetal ejection reflex.