Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Web-Forum
- 1 General introduction
- Section 1 A wake-up call
- Section 2 Back to basics
- 7 Lessons from nature
- 8 Elementary biophysics of birth
- 9 First-stage labor revisited
- 10 Second-stage labor redefined
- 11 Definitions and verbal precision
- Section 3 Proactive support of labor
- Index
- References
11 - Definitions and verbal precision
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Web-Forum
- 1 General introduction
- Section 1 A wake-up call
- Section 2 Back to basics
- 7 Lessons from nature
- 8 Elementary biophysics of birth
- 9 First-stage labor revisited
- 10 Second-stage labor redefined
- 11 Definitions and verbal precision
- Section 3 Proactive support of labor
- Index
- References
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- Type
- Chapter
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- Proactive Support of LaborThe Challenge of Normal Childbirth, pp. 84 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009