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Are Women Spending More Time In Labor? - HER Daily Dose

By Bailey Mosier
Created 04/03/2012 - 10:57

In this edition of EmpowHER's "HER Daily Dose" Bailey Mosier examines a study that says that American women are spending almost 2 hours more in labor during childbirth than women did 50 years ago.

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