spontaneous delivery
spontaneous labour BrE
spontaneous labor AmE

Spontaneous delivery may occur despite persistence of the abnormal lie.

If the baby is preterm or macerated and very small a spontaneous delivery has been observed.

Malvar maternity clinic is accepting spontaneous deliveries.

But one can forgive much for the beneficence of the sound and the incisive, fully thought out but spontaneous delivery of the text.

Because of her patients, Ms. Behary did not have time to prepare formal procrastination remarks; she claims spontaneous delivery is more compelling anyway.

The Dutch soprano Gre Brouwenstijn takes a while to warm up, achieving winningly spontaneous delivery of Elisabeth's lines and a moving final prayer.

The production also benefits from Mr. Huff's spontaneous delivery of commentary that can be quite a mouthful, even with the deletion of phrases from the earlier version like "male sodality."

She was admitted to a London hospital on 10 October 1992 with ruptured membranes and in spontaneous labour.

Membrane stripping has been suggested to produce earlier spontaneous labour and have no complications, but it is also an intervention that many women would dislike.

Pelvimetry used to be performed routinely to discern if spontaneous labour was medically advisable.

In obstetrics a trial of labour is the conduction of spontaneous labour in a moderate degree of cephalopelvic disproportion.

Zero time for spontaneous labour is time of admission in the labour ward and for induced labour is time of induction.

Women who go into spontaneous labour before their estimated date of delivery are fortunate as the risks to both mother and baby have been shown to increase as 'term progresses.'

Research indicates that pelvimetry is not a useful diagnostic tool for CPD (see below) and that in all cases spontaneous labour and birthing should be facilitated.

Induced labour is longer and is associated with more instrumental deliveries, an increased risk of postpartum haemorrhage, and perhaps most importantly, a higher incidence of low Apgar scores than spontaneous labour.

The intervention rate (instrument and operative delivery) in this large study of 3407 uncomplicated prolonged pregnancies, was 49% among women randomised to induction of labour and 51% for those who were monitored while awaiting spontaneous labour.