Background Identifying predictive factors for a normal outcome at admission in the labor ward would be of value for planning labor care, timing interventions and in preventing labor dystocia. Clinical assessments of fetal head station and position ...

Fetal head descent can be expressed as fetal station and engagement. Station is traditionally based on clinical vaginal examination of the distal part of the fetal skull and related to the level of the ischial spines. Engagement is based on a transabdominal ...

INTRODUCTION: There is limited evidence about changes in the pelvic floor during active labor. We aimed to investigate changes in hiatal dimensions during the active first stage of labor and associations with fetal descent and head position. MATERIAL ...