The Stages of Labor and Vaginal Birth
Each birth is as unique as the baby it produces. But the "classic" vaginal childbirth is described by practitioners in three tidy stages:
1. First Stage: Dilation and Effacement of the Cervix
a. early phase
b. active phase
c. transition phase
2. Second Stage: Pushing and Birth
3. Third Stage: Delivery of the Placenta
On November 10, 2010
