Complications of childbirth

Complications of childbirth may include prolonged labour, breech delivery, cord prolapse, aspiration, and birth injuries, premature labour and multiple pregnancies.

Labour becomes even more difficult if the mother's pelvic organs, bones, or tissues are malformed, if the foetus is malpositioned, or if the mother lacks sufficient force to help expedite the foetus through the birth canal.

1. Pregnancy disorders
2. Negative effects of maternity
3. Medical complications

1. Uterine labour disorders
2. Rectovaginal fistula
3. Puerperal pyrexia
4. Puerperal pulmonary embolism
5. Puerperal phlebitis
6. Puerperal blood dyscrasia
7. Premature birth
8. Obstetric shock
9. Multiple pregnancy
10. Low birth-weights
11. Labour pains
12. Klumpke-Déjerine paralysis
13. Impairments of pelvic floor function
14. Hydramnios
15. Haemorrhage of pregnancy and childbirth
16. Erb-Duchenne birth paralysis
17. Ectopic pregnancy
18. Dystocia
19. Disorders of lactation
20. Childbirth fever
21. Birth injuries
22. Anaesthetic death
23. Abnormal births

1. Still-birth
2. Perinatal mortality
3. Pattern of exhausted Fluid of Large Intestine in the body
4. Maternal mortality
5. Infant mortality
6. Head injuries
7. Fistulas
8. Excessive medical intervention in childbirth
9. Career interruption due to pregnancy
10. Birth trauma
11. Asphyxia
12. Anoxemia

1. Wife abuse
2. Uterine fibroids
3. Unsupervised home births
4. Social isolation of women at home
5. Precipitate or ill-judged forceps delivery
6. Medical experimentation on pregnant women and foetuses
7. Malposition of uterus
8. Malformation of cervix
9. Jaundice
10. Foetal infection
11. Foetal erythroblastosis
12. Female genital mutilation
13. Defective oxygen supply to the foetus
14. Cystocele
15. Congenital anomalies of the ovary, fallopian tube and uterus
16. Anaemia of pregnancy
17. Adolescent pregnancy

1. Childlessness
2. Birth prevention

1. Unnecessary cesarean delivery

1. Campaigning against childhood genital mutilation
2. Bearing children

1. Difficulty
2. Complexity

1. Complications during childbirth
2. Labour complications
3. Pregnancy Complications
4. What are some common complications during labor and delivery?
5. Introduction to Complications of Labor and Delivery
6. Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth: a guide for midwives and doctors – 2nd ed.