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Video: The epidural block
Understand this anesthesia for labor and birth.
Water breaking: Understand this sign of labor
Learn how to tell this sign of labor and what do next.
Episiotomy: When it's needed, when it's not
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Inducing labor: When to wait, when to induce
Find out who can benefit from getting the uterus to contract to start labor and why.
Stages of labor and birth: Baby, it's time!
Find out what happens during the different stages of labor and birth.
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