FSW 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blood Transfusion, Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Antibiotics
10 Mar 2019
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Prior to the 20th century, birth was considered a female social ritual: home deliveries and midwives. Reducing the risks of child birth: growing usage of maternity hospitals, antibiotics and safe anthestia. Improved hygiene and drugs for inducing labor: blood transfusion. Homelike birth centers: demedicalizing the birthing experience, rooming-in policies. Parturition: the process of giving birth: begins approximately two weeks before delivery, determined by an increase in the rate of production of corticotrophin releasing hormone, uterine, cervical, and other changes occur, false contractions (braxton hicks) may occur. Dilation of the cervix: lasts 12 to 14 hours, regular and increasingly uterine contractions, stage lasts until cervix is fully open. Descent and emergence of the baby: lasts 1 to 2 hours, baby"s head starts to move through the cervix and into the vaginal canal, baby completely emerges out. Expulsion of the placenta: last 10 minutes to 1 hour, placenta as well as the remainder of the umbilical cord are expelled.
