5.7 Childbirth

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Childbirth

Childbirth

The entire process of labour and vaginal birth takes an average of 13 hours in women giving birth for the first time, and 8 hours in women who have given birth before.

Phases

Childbirth progresses in three stages: labor, delivery of the baby and delivery of the placenta. Unless labor is cut short by a C-section, all women go through labor, the first stage of childbirth. Labor is in turn broken down into two phases: latent and active phase.

Match the phases with the event

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Labor

Delivery of the baby

Delivery of placenta

Phase 1

• This stage is further broken down into latent phase and active phase. 
• In early labor, your contractions are regular, but still quite far apart. Cervical dilation in latent labor is from 0 to 6 centimeters and the dilation is gradual. 
• During the active phase of labor, your cervix will dilate more rapidly.

Phase 2

This is when you push your baby through the birth canal

Phase 3

This ends with the delivery of the placenta, also called afterbirth.

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