Washington, Nov 1: Here’s some useful advice for mums-to-be – patience during stalled labour can avoid childbirths through c-sections, according to a new study.
Researchers from University of California, San Francisco have revealed that pregnant women whose labour stalls while in the active phase of childbirth can reduce health risks to themselves and their infants by waiting out the delivery process for an extra two hours.
They examined 1,014 pregnancies that involved active-phase arrest – two or more hours without cervical dilation- opening of the cervix, the entrance to the uterus, in childbirth- during active labour,