Table 5.
Duration of second stage of labor among women with a primary cesarean delivery for arrest of descent.
| Nulliparous women | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration (hours) | Total (n=1,816) | Normal weight (n=174) | Overweight (n=710) | Obesity class I (n=561) | Obesity class II (n=241) | Obesity class III (n=130) | P-valuea |
| Less than 2 | 304 (16.7) | 33 (19.0) | 113 (15.9) | 101 (18.0) | 35 (14.5) | 22 (16.9) | .47 |
| 2-2.9 | 409 (22.5) | 45 (25.9) | 154 (21.7) | 119 (21.2) | 58 (24.1) | 33 (25.4) | |
| 3-3.9 | 396 (21.8) | 38 (21.8) | 158 (22.3) | 118 (21.0) | 48 (19.9) | 34 (26.2) | |
| 4 or more | 584 (32.2) | 46 (26.4) | 239 (33.7) | 184 (32.8) | 84 (34.9) | 31 (23.9) | |
| Not recorded | 123 (6.8) | 12 (6.9) | 46 (6.5) | 39 (7.0) | 16 (6.6) | 10 (7.7) | |
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| Multiparous women | |||||||
| Duration (hours) | Total (n=302) | Normal weight (n=14) | Overweight (n=100) | Obesity class I (n=92) | Obesity class II (n=55) | Obesity class III (n=41) | P-valuea |
| Less than 2 | 95 (31.5) | 6 (42.9) | 26 (26.0) | 35 (38.0) | 16 (29.1) | 12 (29.3) | .76 |
| 2-2.9 | 81 (26.8) | 5 (35.7) | 31 (31.0) | 18 (19.6) | 16 (29.1) | 11 (26.8) | |
| 3-3.9 | 49 (16.2) | 2 (14.3) | 18 (18.0) | 14 (15.2) | 11 (20.0) | 4 (9.8) | |
| 4 or more | 55 (18.2) | 1 (7.1) | 18 (18.0) | 17 (18.5) | 11 (20.0) | 8 (19.5) | |
| Not recorded | 22 (7.3) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (7.0) | 8 (8.7) | 1 (1.8) | 6 (14.6) | |
Numbers are shown as n (%)
a
Chi-square test. Not recorded was excluded for the analysis. Women with unrecorded last cervical exam were excluded for the analysis.