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] |
| File:Postpartum baby2.jpg | |
| 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.
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. July 11, 2016. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
- ↑ Martin, Elizabeth (2015). Concise Colour Medical l.p.Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-19-968799-2. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.
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- ↑ Buck, Germaine M.; Platt, Robert W. (2011). Reproductive and perinatal epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-19-985774-6. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.
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