Signs Labor Is Starting
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Normal Delivery
Normal delivery typically refers to vaginal childbirth—the natural process of giving birth through the birth canal. It's the most common and traditional method of childbirth and is often encouraged when both the mother and baby are healthy, and there are no medical complications.
Conditions required for a successful outcome of trial of vaginal delivery.
1. The baby should be lying straight with most of its head having entered the pelvis (engagement of fetal head). It is essential in primigravidae that engagement occurs by 36 weeks.
2. Adequate space in the mother’s pelvis. The diameters of the fetal head and the mother’s pelvis are very close, so any disproportion can cause problems in the progress of labour.
3. Any complications that have developed during pregnancy should be taken into account, like growth retardation in the baby, severe hypertension or convulsions in the mother, when the baby is lying transversely, obliquely or even upside-down, low-lying placenta or when the placenta has partially separated before labour, (placental abruption).
The whole labour process can last anything between ten to twelve hours in first-time mothers but takes much less time in mothers who have delivered vaginally before.
There are adequate methods of pain relief by various injections, and an injection in the epidural space (in the region of the spinal cord) can make the labour process practically pain-free. Although epidural analgesia does require a bit of help in the final delivery of the baby with a ventouse or outlet forceps. This is because the mother loses the sensation of when to push out the baby.
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