The mechanism of labor and birth — physically and psychically including the Holistic Stages of Labor, the relevance of cervical dilation, the descent, flexion and rotation of the baby and the emotional and physical signs of labor progressing.
Carole Mendelson, an obstetrician - gynecologist
and biochemist at the University
of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, may have finally found the
mechanism that induces
labor, a discovery that could help prevent some
of the half million early
births that occur every year in the United States.