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Women Spend Much More Time In Labor Than 50 Years Ago

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Women Spend Much More Time in Labor Than 50 Years Ago

According to new research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Birth and Human Development, mothers take significantly longer to give birth today than they did 50 years ago.

Dr. S. Katherine Laughon compared data of almost 140,000 deliveries from the early 1960s and the early 2000s, and found that today´s moms are mostly older and weigh more than the moms 50 years ago. Also epidural injections are more common today

"Older mothers tend to take longer to give birth than do younger mothers. But when we take maternal age into account, it doesn´t completely explain the difference in labor times," Laughon says

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