Birth is unpredictable. It is full of gore, fluids, wetness and screams. It flirts with death. Even today, with modern ...

If you've seen movies that feature childbirth, you can probably recall when the actor playing the doctor says, "They're 10 ...

During labor, medicinal plants were given to aid dilation and reduce pain. Despite the care provided throughout the pregnancy, childbirth was often lethal. If, in spite of all the effort made ...

The Friedman curve, the gold standard for rates of cervical dilation and fetal descent during active labor, was developed almost 50 years ago. To define a modern curve for normal 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 ...

Let us tell you about labor stages in detail. First stage of labor- Dilation of the cervix During the first stage of labor, contractions help your cervix dilate and begin to open. This is called ...

With advancements in medical treatments around the world, childbirth no longer has to ... around four to five centimetres of cervical dilation. Since the epidural placement takes some time to ...