After months of anticipation, your baby's due date is near. Here's what you can expect from the start of labor until the first days and weeks with your new baby. No one can predict with certainty when ...

Since the 1970s, electronic fetal monitoring has been the go-to technology in perinatal obstetrics for the detection of fetal distress during labor. Although the technology has changed slightly in the ...

What Do Labor and Delivery Nurses Do? Labor and delivery nurses have a wide range of responsibilities. They typically care for multiple pregnant, laboring, or postpartum patients at one time. Labor ...

Welcoming a baby into the world is a milestone moment. The final stage of pregnancy, known as labour and delivery, is when all the waiting, planning, and nurturing finally come together. This stage ...

New Delhi | In a time when cesarean births are becoming increasingly common, stories of women successfully delivering normally after a C-section bring both hope and surprise. Known medically as VBAC ...

Read full article: Maternal deaths are 3 times higher in Black women, doctors say There are very few symptoms of high blood pressure, which is why it’s referred to as the “silent killer,” but there ...

GALLUP, N.M. – As the Labor and Delivery Unit at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital prepares to close for the second time in less than a year, one Gallup man shared his family’s experience last fall ...

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More rural hospitals have closed or are planning to close their labor and delivery units in 2025 than in 2024, bringing the total number of closures since the end of 2020 to 116, according to the ...

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