(HealthDay News) – For women whose infants are delivered by vacuum extraction, the risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASIS) is significantly higher among nulliparous women than multiparous ...

Objective is to examine the effect of epidural analgesia in first stage of labor on occurrence of cesarean and operative vaginal deliveries in nulliparous women and multiparous women without a ...

Few characteristics have been identified as risk factors for brachial plexus injuries. We sought to investigate a potential relationship with multiparity based on clinical observation at our ...

Birth data from the public-access Matched Multiple Birth File produced by the National Center for Health Statistics from 1995 to 2000 were analyzed following IRB approval. GA, parity and demographic ...

Among women included in this analysis, which excluded women if they had medical conditions that required immediate cesarean sections or precluded the use of epidural, 754 (36.7%) of the women had ...