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SUMMARY:Progression Of Labor
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You want the activity of giving birth to progress
Women are ok with laboring for hours but not days.

Labor shorter than 3 hours is often overwhelmingly intense and the woman doesn't know it will be over soon. She just thinks "This is what it's going to be like forever". 
A labor longer than 24 hours is just plain exhausting. The woman and baby get tired and 'risks' increase.
Labor that lasts from 24-72 hours is actually not progressing labor but a woman who is having a 'pre-labor' experience which is often hard to distinguish from 'being in labor'.

When Birthing Better skills were developing there was a 4.5% Cesarean rate in the US. Natural birth advocates go back to those statistics and say: 'See women can labor and give birth vaginally without medical interventions or Caesareans'. Just because 95% of women in the 1970s labored and gave birth vaginally does not mean they coped well and didn't suffer. Nor does it mean there was always a good outcome. Nor does it mean birth was...

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