The labor curve of the grand multipara: Does progress of labor continue to improve with additional childbearing?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1331-1338

  Gurewitsch, Edith D ^a,b   Diament, Paul ^d   Fong, Jill ^b   Huang, Guan Hua ^e   Popovtzer, Aron ^c   Weinstein, Daniel ^c   Chervenak, Frank A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical dilatation; Grand multiparity; Labor curves; Labor progress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPARA; NULLIPARA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

EID: 0036085365     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mob.2002.122448a     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Normal cervical dilatation pattern in late pregnancy and labor
2. Cervical changes throughout pregnancy as assessed by transvaginal sonography
3. Uterine activity in the multiparous patient
4. The effect of parity on uterine activity in labor
5. Labor in multiparas
6. A study of 812 grand multiparas
7. Labor patterns in grand multiparas
8. Partogram of a grand multipara: Different descent slope compared with an ordinary parturient
9. Longitudinal data analysis using generalized linear models