A retrospective cohort study of 3,017 women found that a prolonged second stage of labor in a first delivery was not ...

Everything You Need to Know About Labour and Delivery Complications: By Anjali Srivastava Labour and delivery are significant milestones in a parent's life, often filled with emotion and expectation.

Since the 1970s, electronic fetal monitoring has been the go-to technology in perinatal obstetrics for the detection of fetal distress during labor. Although the technology has changed slightly in the ...

• When active phase arrest occurs, cesarean delivery should be performed; second stage arrest should prompt consideration of operative vaginal delivery before proceeding to cesarean delivery. • ...

When it comes to giving birth, there is no shortage of old wives' tales that well-meaning friends and family are all too happy to pass on - but very few of them are backed by science. From tucking ...