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Labor and Delivery - North Kansas City Hospital
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Your Baby's First Weeks
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The last nine months may have seemed to last forever, but now you're on the home stretch. This section explains what happens on the delivery day - and will help you anticipate the steps that make this day a genuinely remarkable and memorable event.

Labor Basics

  • False labor (Braxton-Hicks contractions)
  • The signs of true labor
  • The three stages of labor
  • Procedures that may take place during labor and delivery

Cervical Changes During Labor Tool

Approaches To Childbirth

  • Bradley method
  • Lamaze
  • Strategies for getting through labor
  • Tips for labor coaches
  • Pain relief during labor and delivery

Delivery

  • Vaginal birth
  • Delivery positions
  • Episiotomy
  • C-section
  • Vaginal birth after c-section

Four parents tell their stories of the Delivery Day

After Delivery

  • Your baby's first day
  • Apgar test
  • Circumcision

Placenta Delivery animation

Special Delivery Situations

  • Premature birth
  • Low birth weight
  • Breech birth and other positions
  • Group B strep
  • Membrane breaks prematurely
  • Passing your due date - what happens?
  • Abruptio placentae (detached placenta)
  • Placenta previa (placenta blocks cervix)
  • Multiple birth pregnancies


Review Date: 12/1/2010
Reviewed By: Zev Williams MD, PhD, FACOG, Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, Weill-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
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