Part three: Assessing womens progress in labour

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Abstract
The monitoring of progress in labour is still driven by a preoccupation with time and definitions that pathologise labour if it deviates from strict time parameters. This may have a place where obstetric services are vast distances from primary care settings and where women's health is severely compromised prior to labour. However, for the vast majority of women in the UK, time limits on the first stage of labour reflect practitioners’ predisposition to distrust normal labour physiology.

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