Federal funding will allow international collaboration of researchers to test the effectiveness of using sterile water injections for labour contraction pain.
The Commonwealth Government's medical research future fund has granted more than three hundred thousand dollars to the two year project, run by the University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women's hospital, Charles Darwin University and the University of Skovde.
Dr Nigel Lee from UQ’s School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Work said the aim was to produce a safe, efficacious, and bedside ready procedure offering a new alternative for pain relief in labour.
The trial will begin in early 2022 at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.