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How frequent are her contractions? One common recommendation is the patient may be in active labor if contractions are 5 minutes apart for one hour (if rupture of membranes has not occurred). [10] [20] Does she feel the urge to push with her contractions? This is an indication delivery will occur soon. [18] Pregnancy and Prenatal History?
Regular contractions occurring less than 10 minutes apart and progressive cervical dilation or cervical effacement. [36] At least three painful regular uterine contractions during a 10-minute period, each lasting more than 45 seconds. [37] Many women are known to experience what has been termed the "nesting instinct".
Presence of contractions that occur more frequently than every 2 minutes or last longer than 90 seconds in the presence of late decelerations. Requires repeat testing on following day. [1] Equivocal—Unsatisfactory: Fewer than three contractions occur within 10 minutes, or a tracing quality that cannot be interpreted.
Rolf, her husband, their doula and Rolf's mom got into their Ford Explorer and drove the 35 minutes to the hospital While in the car, Rolf felt the baby moving down the birth canal and begin to crown
A Zigzag pattern of fetal heart rate (FHR) is defined as FHR baseline amplitude changes of more than 25 beats per minute (bpm) with a minimum duration of 2 minutes and maximum of 30 minutes. [19] However, according to another study, even a >1 min duration of the zigzag pattern is associated with an increased risk of adverse neonatal outcomes ...
McKayla, a home birth midwife, says her water broke just after 4 a.m., and her son, Kash, was born an hour later in the family’s dining room.
In the early follicular phase, uterine contractions in the non-pregnant woman occur 1–2 times per minute and last 10–15 seconds with a low intensity of usually 30 mmHg or less. This sub-endometrial layer is rich in estrogen and progesterone receptors. [3] The frequency of contractions increases to 3–4 per minute towards ovulation.
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