The process of labor and birth is divided into three stages:
The first stage begins with the onset of contractions that cause progressive changes in your cervix and ends when your cervix is fully dilated. This stage is divided into two phases: early (or latent) and active labor.
During early labor, your cervix gradually effaces (thins out) and dilates (opens).
During active labor, your cervix begins to dilate more rapidly and contractions are longer, stronger, and closer together. People often refer to the last part of active labor as "transition."
The second stage of labor begins once you're fully dilated and ends with the birth of your baby. This is sometimes referred to as the "pushing" stage.
The third and final stage begins right after the birth of your baby and ends with the separation and subsequent delivery of the placenta.
Every pregnancy is different, and there's wide variation in the length of labor. For first-time moms who are at least 37 weeks along, labor often takes between ten and 20 hours. For some women, though, it lasts much longer, while for others it's over much sooner. Labor generally progresses more quickly for women who've http://wiki.answers.com/0_pregnant-again-what-to-expect-this-time-around_10305185.bcvaginally.
An episiotomy is done during the second stage of labor
expulsion stage
dilation stage, expulsion stage, placental stage
Types? Do you mean stages? If you mean stages, its first, second, and third. First stage is early labor, second stage is active labor (the stage where the baby comes out) and third stage is when the placenta is delivered. Then there's false labor, which can seem like early labor but fizzles out before it progresses into anything.
the last stage is called the last stage
3rd stage of labor is complete cervical dilation and delivery of the baby.
the first stage (opening of the cervix)
The Fifth Stage of Labor - 2013 was released on: USA: 15 July 2013
The Last Stage was created in 1947.
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