Childbirth represents an end of a pregnancy, the act by which a child or children, with the help of contractions, are expelled from the uterus. Childbirth can be divided into four stages, and the course and outcome of vaginal delivery are determined by birth object (fetus and placenta), the birth canal and the birth forces (labor). As for the birth pains, the uterus and cervix are innervated by sympathetic and parasympathetic fibers of the autonomic nervous system. Many factors affect the intensity, duration, distribution and quality of pain during the birth, and they are changing as the childbirth progresses. Given that labor and giving birth, are painful and stressful for both mother and child, one of many key factors of reducing this stress are anesthesia and analgesia. Especially useful is the usage of epidural analgesia, type of neuraxial regional anesthesia that anesthetizes only a certain part of the body. The advantages of such anesthesia are far more numerous than disadvantages, and there are rare complications. One of the complications can be the need for the completion of childbirth by methods of instrumental delivery, either by caesarean section or vacuum extraction. Primary objective of this study was to determine what proportion of pregnant women who had received epidural analgesia had to undergo caesarean section or vacuum extraction and if epidural analgesia affects significantly the mode of completion of delivery (vaginal or instrumental). All research objectives have been met and the basic hypothesis has been proven. Childbirth of parturients, who receive epidural analgesia, is more often completed instrumentally, either by cesarean section or vacuum extraction .