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When you are ready to have your baby, you'll go through labor. Contractions let you know labor is starting. When contractions are five minutes apart, your body is ready to push the baby out. During the first stage of labor, your cervix slowly opens, or dilates, to about 4 inches wide. At the same time, it becomes thinner. This is called effacement. You shouldn't push until your uterus is fully effaced and dilated. When it is, the baby delivery stage starts. Crowning is when your baby's scalp comes into view. Shortly afterward, your baby is born. The placenta that nourished the baby follows. (Read more) |  |
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- Childbirth (National Library of Medicine)When you are ready to have your baby, you'll go through labor. Contractions let you know labor is starting. When contractions are five minutes apart, your ...
- Childbirth Education: Get Ready for Labor and Delivery (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)Childbirth education: Get ready for labor and delivery Do you know what to expect during labor and ... veteran, here's why you should take a childbirth education class. By now, you've probably surrounded ...
- Dealing with Pain during Childbirth (Nemours Foundation)... by the mother's lowered blood pressure. Natural Childbirth Some women choose to give birth using no ... for pain. If you'd like to experience childbirth without pain medication, make your wishes known to ...
- Natural Childbirth (Nemours Foundation)... pain, extremely empowering and rewarding. What Is Natural Childbirth? Natural childbirth is a "low-tech" way of giving birth ... lack of control. But many women choose natural childbirth to feel more in touch with the birth ...
- Women & Anemia - Childbirth and Postpartum Anemia (National Anemia Action Council)Women & Anemia – Childbirth and Postpartum Anemia NAAC Article Published: October 9, 2008 NAAC’s three part series on Women & Anemia discusses ... delivery. Part 3 focuses on postpartum anemia following childbirth. Part 1 | Part 2 Dr. Indu Lew's ...
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(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) - Links to PDF National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Bladder Control Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Let’s Talk about Bladder Control for ... - JAMA Patient Page: Childbirth (American Medical Association)... Janet M. Torpy; Cassio Lynm; Richard M. Glass Childbirth Supplementary material http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/ ... of the American Medical Association JAMA PATIENT PAGE Childbirth A typical pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks (9 ...
- Pregnancy and Childbirth (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Pregnancy and Childbirth Prevention Challenges What CDC is Doing Developing a Prevention Program Resources Grantees Meetings One Test. Two Lives Links ... in PDF format. Download the Reader . Pregnancy and Childbirth Get E-Mail Updates on HIV/AIDS and ...
- Childbirth is really a series of four stages that culminate in the actual birth and short period ... information regarding emergency delivery see the information on childbirth, emergency delivery.
- Emergency measures are indicated when childbirth is imminent and no health care professional is present. Indications of late labor include: rupturing of the amniotic sac; dilation of ...