What is Childbirth?
{{infobox medical condition | name = Childbirth | synonyms = Labour and delivery, labor and delivery, partus, giving birth, parturition, birth, confinement<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/confinement|title=confinement - Definition of confinement in English by Oxford Dictionaries|website=Oxford Dictionaries - English|access-date=2020-01-15|archive-date=2018-11-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123154402/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/confinement|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/confinement|title=CONFINEMENT - meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary|website=dictionary.cambridge.org}}</ref> | image = Postpartum baby2.jpg | caption = Newborn baby and mother | field = [[Obstetrics]], [[midwifery]] | symptoms = | complications = [[Obstructed labour]], [[postpartum bleeding]], [[eclampsia]], [[postpartum infection]], [[birth asphyxia]], [[Kangaroo care|neonatal hypothermia]]<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lunze K, Bloom DE, Jamison DT, Hamer DH | title = The global burden of neonatal hypothermia: systematic review of a major challenge for newborn survival | journal = BMC Medicine | volume = 11 | issue = 1 | pages = 24 | date = January 2013 | pmid = 23369256 | pmc = 3606398 | doi = 10.1186/1741-7015-11-24 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | onset = | duration = | types = [[Vaginal delivery]], [[C-section]]<ref name=Mart2015/> | causes = [[Pregnancy]] | risks = | diagnosis = | differential = | prevention = [[Birth control]], [[abortion]] | treatment = | medication = | prognosis = | frequency = 135 million (2015)<ref name=CIA2015/> | deaths = 500,000 [[maternal deaths]] a year }} '''Childbirth''', also known as '''labour and delivery''', is the ending of [[pregnancy]] where one or more [[babies]] leaves the [[uterus]] by passing through the [[Vagina