Info On Childbirth

Understand Childbirth

 Childbirth (also called labour, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the delivery of one or more newborn infants from a woman’s uterus.
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The process of normal human childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and delivery of the [...]

The stages of normal Childbirth

Latent phase
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The latent phase of labor may last many days and the contractions are an intensification of the Braxton-Hicks contractions that start around 26 weeks gestation.
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Cervical effacement occurs during the closing weeks of pregnancy and is usually complete or near complete, by the end of latent phase.
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Cervical effacement is the thinning and stretching of the [...]

My Other Pregnancies

Two years later on 10 June 1972 my second baby daughter arrived, this pregnancy was completely uneventful no morning sickness, no high blood pressure , and absolutely nothing unusual I was riding horses mustering cattle a week before she was due.
Again, here . I just want to point out to you had different everybody’s labour can [...]

My First Pregnancy - Labour

Labour wards in my day were very different to the birthing wards of today air-conditioning  turn up to freezing white and sterile,  no windows just bright glaring lights.
By 10:30 PM, everything was ready to go Barbara was sitting beside me holding my hand. My gynecologist was at the ready, as was our  Paediatrician, my husband and family had been [...]

My First Pregnancy Part 2

As the days passed I became weaker and weaker and sore from lying bed the whole time, beside my family I had two constant visitors, and young orderly called Peter and an old nurse Barbara.
They would always drop in whenever they were on shift and try to cheer me up.
On the 9th of April 1970 [...]

My First Pregnancy Part 1

Here I will share with you the story of my first pregnancy so you can understand just how different your pregnancy and labor can be those of others.
Just like every woman is different so is every pregnancy, some women experience morning sickness -others don’t, some women suffer with high blood pressure during their pregnancy -others [...]