Kara H wrote:

"Ericka Kammerer" wrote:


What kind of information about subsequent births
are you looking for specifically? If you narrow the
field a bit, I suspect I can turn something up.


Sorry, Ericka. It was WRT to the survey I posted a few days back. I just
assumed people would infer, D'oh!! I was looking for information dealing
with the differences between subsequent births and a mother's first birth.
Like medical facts behind why it is or isn't easier and maybe studies or
information of the like. Basically, the topic for my paper is "Does
childbirth become easier for a mother as the number of previous births
grows?"

Oh, I realized it had to do with the survey, but I
was wondering what specific outcome measures you are looking
for. "Easier" is not an outcome measure you'll find much
information on ;-) You could probably find things on:

- duration of labor
- maternal satisfaction
- use of meds for pain relief
- complications of various sorts
- likelihood of c-section
- likelihood of instrumental delivery
- likelihood of tearing

and probably some others I'm not thinking of. I know that
there are studies linking each of the above with parity.
Are any of those interesting to you?

Take care,
Ericka