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Pushing Methods in Second Stage

News / By Andrea Lythgoe

Cochrane has a new review out on Pushing Methods for the Second Stage of Labor. It looks at 20 studies on directed pushing vs spontaneous pushing. Hop over and check out the findings.

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Andrea Lythgoe
Andrea has been a childbirth educator and doula for over 20 years, and really enjoys helping other birth professionals learn to better understand the research.

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