Contractions are when the muscles of your uterus tighten and relax to get ready for childbirth. These muscles help push your baby down the birth canal. Once you reach week 37 of your pregnancy, it ...

A gush of water, being doubled over in pain, the head of your baby crowning. These are things many women picture when they think of labor. However, for most laboring women, these things take time and ...

Extremal contractions which contract divisors to points in projective threefolds with ${\Bbb Q}\text{-factorial}$ terminal singularities are studied and divided into two categories: index increasing ...

The measurement of the frequency of uterine contractions has not been useful for reducing the rate of preterm delivery in randomized trials. Nonetheless, ambulatory monitoring of contractions ...

Correspondence to: Dr Sale Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Ivor Wynne Centre, Room AB 117, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8, Canada; saledmcmaster.ca On the basis of the foregoing, it would ...