The leading maternal indications were obstructed labor (including conditions that pose high risk for obstructed labor), followed by failure to progress/prolonged labor, uterine rupture, and previous CS (Table 5).
In addition to the formation of obstetric fistulas, a wide array of other pelvic injuries commonly referred to as "the obstructed labor injury complex" [ 9]---may accompany obstructed labor.
Obstetric fistulas typically occur as a result of obstructed labor.
Or $150 pays for a lifesaving C-section for a woman in obstructed labor.
This timely intervention at the hospital prevented my mother, Judy, from undergoing the trauma of obstructed labor.
Women arrived with ruptured uteruses, a stillbirth, an obstructed labor, an incomplete abortion and a bleeding cancer of the cervix.
Instead of circumcisions, hospitals are more likely to use it for procedures like saving women in obstructed labor.
Hadiza had no prenatal care, and a traditional birth attendant couldn't help when she suffered three days of obstructed labor.
"An obstetrician would have tried to improve the forceps or the vacuum extractor, but obstructed labor needed a mechanic.
Urogenital fistula is a debilitating condition that women can develop following obstructed labor.
Hassina, now 19, first experienced obstructed labor when she was 14.
