Especially, yoga has been shown to increase gestational age and birth weight [ 34], improve maternal comfort during labor [ 27], facilitate normal delivery, decrease complications, labor duration, and anesthesia requirements [ 27, 33].
A standardized abstraction form is used to obtain clinical data from maternal and infant records, including prenatal care, ultrasound findings, laboratory reports, pregnancy complications, labor and delivery course, and birth outcomes (infant gender, gestational age, and birth weight and length).
A review of more than 60 studies of birth certificate information (29) found the certificate information to be neither reliable nor valid regarding tobacco and alcohol use, prenatal care, maternal risk, delivery complications, labor, and delivery.
We used the Chi-square test to test the difference of all rates among the three study groups, used the normal approximate method to calculate the 95% confidence interval of the rates of maternal medical complications, labor and delivery complications, obstetric interventions, and the fetal and neonatal mortality and morbidity.
The purpose of this study was to examine complications of labor induction compared to spontaneous labor in multiparas.
The maternal record provided date of delivery, estimated delivery date, maternal height and weight at first prenatal visit, mode of delivery, type of rupture of membranes (ROM), type of labor onset, estimated blood loss, and complications of labor and delivery.
But even Serena Williams, one of the world's greatest athletes, faced life-threatening complications during labor.
This study was undertaken to compare complications of labor induction with misoprostol between women with a history of cesarean delivery and women without uterine scarring.
Childbirth is a risky enterprise for a healthy grown woman – a woman of reproductive age in Paraguay for example, has a one in 310 chance of dying from from complications from labor.
The absence of fear from the home-birth experience may largely explain why women who birth at home have fewer complications during labor and birth than women not birthing at home.
