BACKGROUND One of the major complications related to delivery is labor dystocia, or an arrested labor progress. Many dystocic deliveries end vaginally after administration of oxytocin, but a large numbers of women with labor dystocia will undergo a long and unsafe parturition. As a result of the exertion required in labor, the uterus produces lactate. The uterine production of lactate is mirror...

Scientific evidence supports spontaneous physiologic approaches to second-stage labor care; however, most women in US hospitals continue to receive direction from nurses and birth attendants to use prolonged Valsalva bearing-down efforts as soon as the cervix is completely dilated. Delaying maternal bearing-down efforts during second-stage labor until a woman feels an urge to push (laboring dow...

June 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 6 | e276 Few biological processes as central to the survival of viviparous species are so incompletely understood as childbirth (parturition) [1]. Premature labor and prolonged gestation due to failure of labor to commence are associated with an increased risk for perinatal death and long-term handicap. Even when labor begins at term, “failure to progress” is so fre...

A retrospective study was conducted to determine the efifects of intrathecal analgesia on length of labor. There have been a number of investigations which show contradictory evidence as to the effect of epidural (EPI) analgesia on the progress of labor. Combined spinal-epidural (CSE) and intrathecal analgesia (ITA) techniques have been used to provide effective pain relief for parturients, but...

Although impressive progress has been made in the reduction of maternal mortality there has long been recognized a lack of concomitant reduction in fetal deaths. Only recently have efforts been specifically applied to the problem of reducing fetal mortality, although general progress in medicine has lowered the neonatal death rate from 44 per 1000 live births to 24 per 1000 during the last twen...

The results of Riskesdas (2018) in Central Java Province, the number cases complications prolonged labor occupies second highest after premature rupture membranes, which is 5.2%. Given high incidence labor, it necessary to do proper handling from a midwife. One efforts that can be done by midwives pelvic rocking exercises for mothers labor. purpose this study was determine effect exercise on le...

Prolonged labor is one of causes maternal and infant death. Several prolonged are inefficient uterine contractions, presentation or position the fetus, inadequate pelvic bones abnormalities soft tissues, which result in failure to progress an increase incidence Caesarean section delivery. The upright will encourage stronger more efficient wherein gravity occur keep baby's head pressed towards l...