Childbirth

Childbirth
Childbirth
Other names	Labour and delivery, labor and delivery, partus, giving birth, parturition, birth, confinement
	Newborn baby and mother
Medical specialty	Obstetrics, midwifery
Complications	Obstructed labour, postpartum bleeding, eclampsia, postpartum infection, birth asphyxia, neonatal hypothermia
Types	Vaginal delivery, C-section
Causes	Pregnancy
Prevention	Birth control, abortion
Frequency	135 million (2015)
Deaths	500,000 maternal deaths a year

Childbirth, also known as labour and delivery, is when a woman gives birth. This means it is the ending of a pregnancy where one baby or (more) babies leave the uterus by passing through the vagina or by Caesarean section.

Birth rate is important in determining the population growth rate. In 2015, there were about 135 million births globally. About 15 million were born before 37 weeks of gestation, called a premature birth, while between 3 and 12 percent were born after 42 weeks as a postterm delivery.

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[1] "confinement - Definition of confinement in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries - English. Archived from the original on 2018-11-23. Retrieved 2020-01-15.

[2] "CONFINEMENT - meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org.

[3] Lunze K, Bloom DE, Jamison DT, Hamer DH (January 2013). "The global burden of neonatal hypothermia: systematic review of a major challenge for newborn survival". BMC Medicine. 11 (1): 24. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-11-24. PMC 3606398. PMID 23369256.

[Mart2015-4] 1 2 Martin E (2015). Concise Colour Medical l.p.Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-19-968799-2. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.

[CIA2015-5] 1 2 "The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. July 11, 2016. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

[6] "Preterm birth Fact sheet N°363". WHO. November 2015. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

[7] Buck GM, Platt RW (2011). Reproductive and perinatal epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-19-985774-6. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.