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FOLLOWING LABOR

If a woman is in labor and you want to know if there is time to get her to the ...

If a woman is in labor and you want to know if there is time to get her to the hospital, check for the child’s head during a contraction. If you can’t see it and it is the woman’s first child, you have at least an hour. If you can see a quarter’s worth, you have 20 or 30 minutes. If you can see a quarter’s worth and she has had a child before, you don’t have time. — Dr. K. Emmott, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

10/18/14

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