Childbirth Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Childbirth.

  • 3 Encyclopedia Articles

Study Pack

The Childbirth Study Pack contains:

Encyclopedia Articles (3)

614 words, approx. 3 pages
Parturition Labor (parturition) refers to the series of events that expel the fetus out of the mother's body by means of uterine contractions. The musculature of the pregnant uterus is arranged in thr... Read more
335 words, approx. 2 pages
Parturition Parturition is a term that refers to labor and birth. More information on birth may be found by looking under that term. Mammals in general and humans in particular give birth to living yo... Read more
1,006 words, approx. 4 pages
Childbirth Childbirth includes both labor (the process of birth) and delivery (the birth itself); it refers to the entire process as an infant makes its way from the womb down the birth canal to the o... Read more