Use this outline to guide your study and reading. You should know the concepts outlined. Tip: Write down or type up your understanding of everything outlined for your own records.
Objectives:
- Understand the history and evidence for due dates
- List the physical and emotional changes as labor begins
- State the four main hormones in labor
Study:
Book – Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn 2016 version
- Chapter 9, “When and How Labor Begins”, page 156
- Chapter 10, “What Childbirth Is Really Like”, pages 168-194
A. Due Dates
Resources
B. Late Pregnancy
- Physical changes
- Emotional changes
- Engagement
- Parity
- Presentation
- Position
- Station
- Descent
- Cervical changes
- Hormonal interactions
- Labor signs
- Ripen
- Effacement
C. Stages of Labor
Resources
Read: https://thechildbirthprofession.com/misunderstanding-childbirth/
- Early labor
- Dilation
- Contractions
- Oxytocin
- Catecholamines
- Beta-endorphins
- Prolactin
- When to contact care provider
- Active labor
- Transition
- Pushing
- Phases of pushing
- Crowning
- Birth
- Delivery of Placenta
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