Birth Process-What Happens To A Baby During Birth
About 38 weeks after conception, the baby is ready to be born. The birth process can be separated into three stages of labor.
In the first stage, uterine contractions occur initially every 8 to 10 minutes, each lasting about 30 seconds. As time passes, contractions occur more frequently and with greater intensity, such as every 2 minutes and up to 2 minutes longer.
As a result, the cervix — which separates the uterus from the vagina — opens enough so that the baby’s head can pass. This state is the longest of the three. In the second stage, the baby’s head starts passing through the cervix and vagina.
This phase usually lasts for about 90 minutes and ends when the child is completely out of the mother’s body.
In the third stage, the umbilical cord — still attached to the new baby — and the placenta is expelled from the mother. This step is very fast and easy, as it lasts only for a few minutes.
The first minutes of a newborn’s life are important in determining the health of the infant, and the APGAR scale is a quick way of testing, using APGAR.
