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Childbirth

Also called labor, delivery, birth, partus, or parturition, it is the final stage of pregnancy in which one or more newborn infants are expulsed from a woman's uterus. Normal childbirth process consists of three stages: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and birth of the infant, and birth of the placenta.

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