Giving birth is one of the most intense and unique moments in a woman’s life. Ideally it should not be associated with pain. Postpartum perineal pain is all the more complex and problematic since it can last for some time after delivery, especially when episiotomy is involved. Today’s new technologies such as low-level laser therapy may be part of the solution in addition to a whole range of more traditional pain-killers. A pilot study was led in Brazil to assess the limits and benefits of such a method. Jaqueline de Oliveiras Santos (PhD, Nurse Midwife) et al. describe the whole procedure of clinical trial of this innovation in the following article. This might help new generations of midwives assist mothers more efficiently with a new approach to what is known in English as pain management, pain medicine or even “algiatry”…