Your baby has been born, but there’s one final step — delivering the placenta. Here’s what to expect from this last stage of ...

That said, unless things are cut short by a C-section, all women go through three precise stages of labor and childbirth: labor itself (which includes early labor, active labor and transitional labor) ...

In movies and TV, pregnant women always seem to know when it’s time! Suddenly, a woman’s water breaks, and she’s whisked away to the hospital right on her due date, baby delivered according to her ...

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In a creative and humorous attempt to educate expecting mothers, a labor and delivery nurse has entranced viewers with a viral video that compares the different stages of cervical dilation to various ...

Researchers observed no differences in rates of cesarean delivery among women with prolonged labor who were administered propranolol vs. placebo, findings presented at The Pregnancy Meeting showed.