If you're pregnant and your due date is fast approaching, it's important to be able to recognize the signs that you're dilating and in labor. To help you better understand the stages of labor ...

If it's starting out a little dilated or if it started out closed, you go through the early stages of labor, which is usually about 0 to 4 centimeters of dilation and then after that, you enter ...

Labor is an entire process with multiple stages. It begins with contractions and ends at childbirth. If you are to-be mother, you must know about the entire process for your information.

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Surgical interventions during advanced labor stages often involve incisions close to or within cervical tissue, increasing the likelihood of trauma. As labor progresses, the head of the fetus ...

A team of veteran labor and delivery nurses at Temple Health help dispel rumors, educate parents on what really happens in delivery, and empower them to make important decisions during delivery.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between parity, maternal age at delivery, gestational age, and duration of the second stage of labor. In this article a retrospective ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine risk factors for a prolonged second stage of labor and evaluate the maternal and neonatal outcomes of such pregnancies. METHODS: We reviewed all 7818 patients who delivered ...