Childbirth
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Childbirth (also called labour, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with birth of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal human childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and birth of the infant, and birth of the placenta. In some cases, childbirth is achieved through caesarean section, the removal of the neonate through a surgical incision in the abdomen, rather than through vaginal birth.
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- Advanced maternal age, when a woman is of an older age at reproduction
- Antinatalism
- Coffin birth
- Kangaroo care
- Lamaze
- Natalism
- Natural childbirth
- Obstetrical Dilemma
- Pre- and perinatal psychology
- Traditional birth attendant
- Unassisted childbirth
- Water birth
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