To cite this page: âAmish Population by State/Province, 2016.â Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. http://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/population-by-state/.
During a first-time birth, a first labor lasts 16 hours on average, however, this can vary tremendously. Labor can be divided into three stages. Stage one, where the cervix dilates, is subdivided into three phases, early, active and transition.
Preterm Labor. The normal length of a pregnancy is 40 weeks. In most pregnancies, labor starts between 37 and 42 weeks after your last menstrual period. When labor begins before the 37th week of your pregnancy, it is considered preterm labor.