Childbirth

Childbirth
Childbirth
Other names	Labour and delivery, labor and delivery, partus, giving birth, parturition, birth, confinement
	Newborn baby and mother
Medical specialty	Obstetrics , midwifery
Complications	Obstructed labour , postpartum bleeding , eclampsia , postpartum infection , birth asphyxia , neonatal hypothermia
Types	Vaginal delivery , C-section
Causes	Pregnancy
Prevention	Birth control , abortion
Frequency	135 million (2015)
Deaths	500,000 maternal deaths a year

Childbirth , also known as labour and delivery , is the ending of pregnancy where one or more babies leaves the uterus by passing through the vagina or by Caesarean section . ^[4] In 2015, there were about 135 million births globally. ^[5]

About 15 million were born before 37 weeks of gestation ^[6], called a premature birth , while between 3 and 12 percent were born after 42 weeks ^[7] as a postterm delivery .

Birth rate is important in determining the population growth rate.

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↑ "confinement - Definition of confinement in English by Oxford Dictionaries" . Oxford Dictionaries - English . Archived from the original on 2018-11-23 . Retrieved 2020-01-15 .
↑ "CONFINEMENT - meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary" . dictionary.cambridge.org .
↑ Lunze K, Bloom DE, Jamison DT, Hamer DH (January 2013). "The global burden of neonatal hypothermia: systematic review of a major challenge for newborn survival" . BMC Medicine . 11 (1): 24. doi : 10.1186/1741-7015-11-24 . PMC 3606398 . PMID 23369256 .
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Martin E (2015). Concise Colour Medical l.p.Dictionary . Oxford University Press. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-19-968799-2 . Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 "The World Factbook" . www.cia.gov . July 11, 2016. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016 . Retrieved 30 July 2016 .
↑ "Preterm birth Fact sheet N°363" . WHO . November 2015. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015 . Retrieved 30 July 2016 .
↑ Buck GM, Platt RW (2011). Reproductive and perinatal epidemiology . Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-19-985774-6 . Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.

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[1] "confinement - Definition of confinement in English by Oxford Dictionaries" . Oxford Dictionaries - English . Archived from the original on 2018-11-23 . Retrieved 2020-01-15 .

[2] "CONFINEMENT - meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary" . dictionary.cambridge.org .

[3] Lunze K, Bloom DE, Jamison DT, Hamer DH (January 2013). "The global burden of neonatal hypothermia: systematic review of a major challenge for newborn survival" . BMC Medicine . 11 (1): 24. doi : 10.1186/1741-7015-11-24 . PMC 3606398 . PMID 23369256 .

[Mart2015-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Martin E (2015). Concise Colour Medical l.p.Dictionary . Oxford University Press. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-19-968799-2 . Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.

[CIA2015-5] 5.0 ^5.1 "The World Factbook" . www.cia.gov . July 11, 2016. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016 . Retrieved 30 July 2016 .

[6] "Preterm birth Fact sheet N°363" . WHO . November 2015. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015 . Retrieved 30 July 2016 .

[7] Buck GM, Platt RW (2011). Reproductive and perinatal epidemiology . Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-19-985774-6 . Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.

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