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spontaneous delivery

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delivery /de·liv·ery/ (de-liv´er-e) expulsion or extraction of the child and fetal membranes at birth.
abdominal delivery  delivery of an infant through an incision made into the intact uterus through the abdominal wall.
breech delivery  delivery in which the fetal buttocks present first.
forceps delivery  extraction of the child from the maternal passages by application of forceps to the fetal head; designated low or midforceps delivery according to the degree of engagement of the fetal head and high when engagement has not occurred.
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Forceps delivery.
postmortem delivery  delivery of a child after death of the mother.
spontaneous delivery  birth of an infant without any aid from an attendant.

spontaneous delivery,
a vaginal birth occurring without the mechanical assistance of obstetric forceps or vacuum aspirator.


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We tested 78 amniotic fluid samples from patients who delivered prematurely (defined as spontaneous delivery before 37 weeks of gestation) at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland, from 2003 to 2006.
On the other hand, they noted that the induced group had a slightly greater blood loss, slightly lower APGAR scores, a 17% increase in epidural use and a 5% higher cesarean section rate than the spontaneous delivery group.
However, among spontaneous delivery mothers that rose to 30.
 
 
 
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