1College of Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Baghdad, Iraq
2College of Medicine, Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Clinical Pharmacy Department, Baghdad, Iraq
*Corresponding author: Hayder Adnan Fawzi, Baghdad, Iraq. hayder.adnan2010@ierit.nahrainuniv.edu.iq, Phone no.: 009647722627943
Online published on 7 December, 2018.
To investigate how the location of the placenta at term pregnancies affects the duration of the stages of labour.
A cross-sectional study was carried out in an obstetric department of Baghdad Teaching hospital for the period from 1st of November 2013 to 1st of June 2014 on 300 pregnant women at term.
There was no significant difference in the duration of the 1st stage between fundal, anterior and posterior placental site, mean duration of 2nd stage was significantly longer in fundal site compared to anterior site, mean duration in the 3rd stage was significantly longer in anterior site compared to posterior and fundal sites, posterior site had significantly longer duration compared to fundal site.
The placental site significantly affected the duration of the third stage of labour, a fundal site of the placenta may be closely related to the shorter duration of the third stage of labour, a posterior side of the placenta may be closely related to longer duration of the third stage of labour. A fundal site of the placenta may be closely related to increased gestational age, good obstetric history and normal fetal birth weight.
Placenta site, labour duration, labour stages
