Labour with uniovular twins.

Date:
1933
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Labour with uniovular twins. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

This film shows the second stage of labour, and opens with the head of the first child advancing and gradually distending the perineum. The first child presents in the left occipito anterior position. The second child presents and is delivered in the third vortex position. The placenta is delivered. 3 segments.

Publication/Creation

England, 1933.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (16 min.) : silent, black and white

Duration

00:16:14

Contents

Segment 1 The film begins at the second stage of labour. The head of the first child is advancing. The intertitles describe the position of the baby and what the mother is doing during this stage of labour. The head begins to 'crown', and the intertitles explain how to avoid perineal laceration. The head is delivered. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:05:30:14 Length: 00:05:30:14
Segment 2 The shoulders are delivered. The umbilical cord is cut. The second twin presents. The intertitles note that because the birth canal has already dilated, the second birth is more rapid. Time start: 00:05:30:14 Time end: 00:10:51:01 Length: 00:05:20:12
Segment 3 The second baby is delivered. The umbilical cord is cut. The third stage of labour begins. The patient changes position and the delivery of the placenta takes place, with the intertitles explaining the process. The placenta is examined. The mother and twins are shown ten days later. Time start: 00:10:51:01 Time end: 00:16:00:13 Length: 00:05:09:12

Creator/production credits

Produced by Sir H. Beckwith Whitehouse at Dept. of Midwifery and Diseases of Women, Maternity Hospital, University of Birmingham.

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Copyright note

Copyright previously held by British Medical Association and assigned to Wellcome in 2005

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