Identifier: textbookofpracti00granuoft (find matches)
Title: A text-book of practical obstetrics, comprising pregnancy, labor, and the puerpal state, and obstetric surgery
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Grandin, Egbert H
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: Philadelphia, Davis
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The vagina, but out of the vagina into the bed. Rarely, however, is the first attempt successful. Where it fails, the attendant keeps his hands in position and awaits a second uterine contraction. Should this not tend to recur, or should it be feeble, gentle massage of the uterus, will often evoke stronger contractions, Patience is requisite and the uterus should not be spurred into action before it is ready to act, —that is to say, before it has regained tone. Usually from fifteen to thirty minutes elapse from the termination of the second stage of labor until the end of the third stage. This is entirely within physiological limits, and if no complication offer, such as haemorrhage, delay to this extent need give rise to no anxiety. As the placenta emerges at the vulva it is received in the hand and held there until the membranes are shed. (Plate XXXV.) In normal cases the membranes follow the placenta at once, but frequently, after the uterus has expelled the placenta, the lower XXX
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