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 outside world. The average length of labor is about 14 hours for...

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 three strata: an external hood-like layer, which arches over the...

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 young. Accordingly, the procedure of bringing forth an infant from...

Process of bringing forth a child from the uterus, ending pregnancy. It has three stages. In dilation, uterine contractions lasting about 40 seconds begin 20–30 minutes apart and progress to severe labour pains about every 3 minutes. The opening...

The natural process of giving birth by the expulsion of the foetus and its membranes from the uterus following contraction of the surrounding...

(from Latin, parere: to bring out) The act of...

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. The process of human childbirth is categorized in 3 stages...