They are not medical care providers, but their guidance and support can contribute to faster labors with fewer complications and lower rates of cesarean section.
"If a woman has a history of fast labor, the distance, travel and traffic could make things difficult," Dr. Randolph said.
Bing gave birth herself at 40, going into a fast labor during which she was given spinal anesthesia and nitric oxide.
Dr. Spong said that in deciding how serious the tracings are, doctors "need to look at the entire clinical picture, not just the tracing," and consider factors like the mother's blood pressure, heart rate and temperature, what medicines she might have been given, the frequency of contractions and how fast labor is progressing.
If the contractions are two minutes or less apart, buckle down and get ready to deliver the baby, especially if the mother's had other children and they were fast labors.
(These figures are all seasonally adjusted). But the ranks of the unemployed haven't shrunk as fast as the black labor force has expanded, pushing the unemployment rate higher.
In such a tight, fast-moving labor market, you need to figure out how to gain a talent acquisition advantage.
(In the 1980s and early 1990s productivity grew slowly, and then it took off after 1996; some economists explained that IT was finally being used effectively). But now, Brynjolfsson and McAfee argue, the efficiencies and automation opportunities made possible by IT are advancing too fast for the labor market to keep up.
Output and revenue have risen faster than labor costs, largely because of the new technologies.
Wages that for years rose faster than labor productivity under economic policies that made Mr. Putin widely popular have now priced Russians out of the market for many goods and services globally.
