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.
SECOND STAGE: The period of pushing the baby down the birth canal out the vaginal opening, into the world. THIRD STAGE: Expulsion of the placenta. An average length of labor for a woman having her first child is 12 to 18 hours.An average length of labor for a woman having her second or more child is considered to be about 7 hours.*Please remember that there are no two human bodies alike and that the information given here may be used as guidelines to understanding but may or may not apply directly to your birth experience.abor is an end to pregnancy and a beginning for a new human life in a newly shaped family.. The Birth Primer by Rebecca Rowe Parfitt Medically, labor is broken down into 3 separate periods: FIRST STAGE: The period during which the cervix effaces, and dilates from 0-10 centimeters.