Increasing Maternal Body Mass Index and Characteristics of the Second Stage of Labor

Barrett Robinson,Delicia C. Mapp,Steven L. Bloom,Dwight J. Rouse,Catherine Y. Spong,Michael W. Varner,Susan M. Ramin,Yoram Sorokin,Anthony Sciscione,Brian M. Mercer,John M. Thorp,Fergal D. Malone,Margaret Harper,Hugh M. Ehrenberg

Increasing Maternal Body Mass Index and Characteristics of the Second Stage of Labor

2011

Barrett Robinson
Delicia C. Mapp
Steven L. Bloom
Dwight J. Rouse
Catherine Y. Spong
Michael W. Varner
Susan M. Ramin
Yoram Sorokin
Anthony Sciscione
Brian M. Mercer
John M. Thorp
Fergal D. Malone
Margaret Harper
Hugh M. Ehrenberg

OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the length of the second stage of labor in relation to increasing maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) among nulliparous parturient women, and to determine whether route of delivery differs among obese, overweight, and normal-weight women reaching the second stage of lab

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Obstetrics
Parity (mathematics)
Body mass index
Young adult
Gynecology
Diabetes mellitus
Overweight
Pregnancy
Medicine
Mass index
maternal body

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