For multiparous women with low risk pregnancies, the perinatal outcome of planned home birth was significantly better than that of planned hospital birth, whether or not background was controlled for. (bmj.com)
For example, the recent Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development document suggested allowing one additional hour in the setting of an epidural, thus, at least 3 hours in multiparous women and 4 hours in nulliparous women be used to diagnose second - stage arrest, although that document did not clarify between pushing time or total second stage (33). (acog.org)
In our cohort, 42.6 % of primiparous women and 33.5 % of multiparous women underwent a primary cesarean delivery for failure to progress when the cervix was dilated less than 6 cm. (journals.lww.com)