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Order the path to birth

Exercise and reference answers

Steps
  1. Braxton Hicks contractions (false labor)
  2. Bloody show
  3. Cervical dilation to 10 cm
  4. Rupture of amniotic membranes
  5. Expulsion of the newborn
  6. Delivery of the placenta (afterbirth)
Instructions
Tap the events leading up to and through childbirth into order.

Explanation

_Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology (CC BY 4.0), Ch 28, §Physiology of Labor & §Stages of Childbirth, p.1344-1346_
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