The authors postulated that there would be no difference in birth experience based on labour length and considered it a measure of validity that there was no correlation between labour length and PCACL-R scores.
Most independent variables were categorical, except parental age and labour length, which were represented on a continuous scale.
For mothers, other satisfaction predictors were labour length, tearing and type of anaesthesia used in caesarean section.
In concordant posterior positions labour length was greater than other ones, and analgesia request rate was 64.1% versus 14.7% for all the others.
In concordant posterior positions, the labour length, analgesia request, operative delivery, and caesarean section rate are higher than in the other combination.
Variables having a non-normal distribution, such as labour length and estimated blood loss, were log transformed for analysis but medians and inter-quartile ranges are presented for ease of interpretation.
For example, a study of nine European countries reported costs of cataract surgery to vary from US$32,3600 in Spain to $59,9288 in Denmark, with health care labour duration, length of stay, inpatient vs. outpatient surgery and the type of IOL being the main cost determinants [ 40].
aAdjusted for IMD, age, age completed FT education, ethnicity, country of birth, AN feeding intention, labour duration, postnatal stay length, NNU admission, source of breastfeeding support, breastfeeding support not needed, MWs gave active support and encouragement.
Key variables include: method of birth; length of labour; duration of pushing; evidence of obstructed labour; use of epidural, spinal or general anaesthesia; birth position, position of fetus in labour, fetal presentation, degree of perineal and other genital tract trauma, gestation, infant birthweight, and head circumference.
That study included 40 subjects and reported no difference in rates of vaginal delivery not achieved with 24 hours, caesarean deliveries, operative vaginal delivery, need for oxytocin augmentation of labour, or length of labour [ 48].
The body that was gross, Rank, ravenous, disgusting in the act or in repose, All fever, filth and sweat, its bestial strength And bestial decay, by pain and labour grows at length Fragile and luminous.
