Read on to learn about the different types of contractions, how to manage them and keep yourself comfortable during active labor, and when to visit a healthcare provider. This article also ...

Brittany Sharpe McCollum, founder of Blossoming Bellies Wholistic Birth Services, shares her tips for an empowering labor and ...

Introduction: Laboring women are often admitted to labor units under criteria that are commonly associated with the onset of active-phase labor (i.e., cervical dilatation of 3–5 cm in the ...

Alternatively, assuming that traditional expectations of retrospectively identified active labor are well defined, it can be concluded that many women admitted to labor units in presumed active ...

you enter what's called the active phase of labor, and that you know the contractions are pretty strong, they are usually every 3 – 5 minutes and the cervix is dilating pretty frequently from ...

Contractions and dilation (opening) of the cervix before 37 weeks of pregnancy are considered preterm, or premature, labor. A normal pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks after the first day of the last ...