This article talks about how modern women have longer labors than they did in the 50's and 60's. You think? This quote from Michael Cabbad, MD, chairman and chief of maternal and fetal medicine at the Brooklyn Hospital Medical Center pretty much sums it up:
"When patients arrive in active labor, they are placed on monitoring devices that people didn't have in the ‘60s. They tend to be placed in a labor bed. They get IV fluid hydration, which tends to slow labor. Women are in bed with limited mobility, not walking." That also tends to slow down the labor process, he says.
One thing they didn't report accurately is the current C-section rate in the U.S. They reported it at 12% when it is actually a little above 30%.
PS: I like this picture:
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