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Childbirth
Other namesLabour and delivery, labor and delivery, partus, giving birth, parturition, birth, confinement[1][2]
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Newborn baby and mother
Medical specialtyObstetrics, midwifery
ComplicationsObstructed labour, postpartum bleeding, eclampsia, postpartum infection, birth asphyxia, neonatal hypothermia[3]
TypesVaginal delivery, C-section[4]
CausesPregnancy
PreventionBirth control, abortion
Frequency135 million (2015)[5]
Deaths500,000 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.[4]

Birth rate is important in determining the population growth rate. In 2015, there were about 135 million births globally.[5] About 15 million were born before 37 weeks of gestation,[6] called a premature birth, while between 3 and 12 percent were born after 42 weeks[7] as a postterm delivery.

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  1. ā†‘ "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. ā†‘ "CONFINEMENT - meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org.
  3. ā†‘ 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. PMC3606398. PMID23369256.
  4. 1 2 Martin E (2015). Concise Colour Medical l.p.Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p.375. ISBN978-0-19-968799-2. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.
  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. ā†‘ "Preterm birth Fact sheet NĀ°363". WHO. November 2015. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  7. ā†‘ Buck GM, Platt RW (2011). Reproductive and perinatal epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.163. ISBN978-0-19-985774-6. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.
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