Childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour and delivery, is the ending of pregnancy where one or more babies leaves the uterus by passing through the vagina or by Caesarean section.[4] In 2015, there were about 135 million births globally.[5]
| 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 | |
| Medical specialty | Obstetrics, midwifery |
| Complications | Obstructed labour, postpartum bleeding, eclampsia, postpartum infection, birth asphyxia, neonatal hypothermia[3] |
| Types | Vaginal delivery, C-section[4] |
| Causes | Pregnancy |
| Prevention | Birth control, abortion |
| Frequency | 135 million (2015)[5] |
| Deaths | 500,000 maternal deaths a year |
About 15 million were born before 37 weeks of gestation[6], called a premature birth, while between 3 and 12 percent were born after 42 weeks[7] as a postterm delivery.
Birth rate is important in determining the population growth rate.
Related pages
- Premature birth
- Postterm birth
- Population growth rate
- Mortality rate
References
- "confinement - Definition of confinement in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries - English. Archived from the original on 2018-11-23. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
- "CONFINEMENT - meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org.
- Lunze K, Bloom DE, Jamison DT, Hamer DH (January 2013). "The global burden of neonatal hypothermia: systematic review of a major challenge for newborn survival". BMC Medicine. 11 (1): 24. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-11-24. PMC 3606398. PMID 23369256.
- Martin E (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.
- "The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. July 11, 2016. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
- "Preterm birth Fact sheet N°363". WHO. November 2015. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
- Buck GM, Platt RW (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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