Childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour and delivery, is the ending of pregnancy where one or more babies leaves the uterus by passing through naturally or by Caesarean section.[5] In 2015, there were about 135 million births globally.[4]
| Childbirth | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Labour and delivery, labor and delivery, partus, giving birth, parturition, birth, confinement[1][2] |
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| Newborn baby and mother | |
| Complications | Obstructed labour, postpartum bleeding, eclampsia, postpartum infection, birth asphyxia, neonatal hypothermia[3] |
| Causes | Pregnancy |
| Prevention | Birth control, abortion |
| Frequency | 135 million (2015)[4] |
| Deaths | 500,000 maternal deaths a year |
About 15 million were born before 37 weeks of gestation,[6] while between 3 and 12 percent were born after 42 weeks.[7]
References
- ↑ confinement - Definition of confinement in English by Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford Dictionaries - English.
- ↑ CONFINEMENT - meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary. dictionary.cambridge.org.
- ↑ The global burden of neonatal hypothermia: systematic review of a major challenge for newborn survival. BMC Medicine 11 (1) (January 2013). p. 24. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-11-24.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The World Factbook. www.cia.gov (July 11, 2016). Retrieved 30 July 2016.
- ↑ Martin, Elizabeth. Concise Colour Medical l.p.Dictionary (in en) (2015)Oxford University Press. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-19-968799-2.
- ↑ Preterm birth Fact sheet N°363. WHO (November 2015). Retrieved 30 July 2016.
- ↑ Buck, Germaine M.. Reproductive and perinatal epidemiology (2011). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-19-985774-6.
