prolonged labour BrE
prolonged labor AmE

Risk factors include prolonged labour, difficult instrumental delivery and paramedian episiotomy.

Yet hadn't Celia told her about her prolonged labour, and how her aunt had saved the baby by resuscitation?

Most of these people were very poor; they had been unable to obtain land on any lease, or agricultural work during an acute and prolonged labour surplus; they intended to settle.

'I do remember one weekend, during the flu outbreak, must have been early April - yes, a girl in prolonged labour, we were all getting worried about her, she nearly lost her baby.

It states that epidural analgesia with bupivacaine is associated with factors that adversely affect the infant, such as lower maternal self esteem, prolonged labour, use of oxytocin, and forceps delivery.

Jane, who appeared to recover quickly from a prolonged labour, sent out pre-signed letters announcing the birth of "a Prince, conceived in most lawful matrimony between my Lord the King's Majesty and us".

Crossbreeding small, upland ewes with larger, lowland rams can cause difficult and prolonged labour for ewes due to the heaviness of the resulting offspring, thus making the lambs more at risk to fox predation.

They were still impoverished, true, but then so were many of their neighbours, and Henryk's old wound continued to make prolonged labour difficult: yet food for the table slowly became less of a problem and occasionally there were zlotys enough to spend on other things, usually new farming equipment.

Shourie's exposés resulted in a prolonged labour dispute at the Mumbai offices of the Indian Express, where a labour organizer with ties to Antulay encouraged workers to strike for a minimum wage double than what was paid at any other newspaper in India.

Caesarean section usually resulted in the death of the mother; the first recorded incidence of a woman surviving a Caesarean section was in the 1580s, in Siegershausen, Switzerland: Jakob Nufer, a pig gelder, is supposed to have performed the operation on his wife after a prolonged labour.