While often used interchangeably in casual conversation, labor and delivery represent distinct clinical stages of the childbirth process. Labor refers to the physical work performed by the mother's body—specifically the rhythmic uterine contractions and cervical dilation required to move the baby down the birth canal. Delivery, on the other hand, is the actual culmination of labor: the physical moment the baby is born and safely expelled or surgically removed from the mother's body into the world.
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