Finally the time arrives when you give birth to your baby. You will be completely drained out as well as excited to see your baby. The sound of your crying baby will be the most exhilarating moment for you. Your partner can take pictures of your baby to treasure these moments for lifelong. Thus this stage will be the most difficult but the most rewarding of all stages.

• Take deep breaths.
• You don't need to push much during these contractions.

• Praise your mate saying that she has done a great job.
• Help her taking deep breaths.
• Take pictures of the mother and baby.

• The third stage of labour is the shortest stage, lasting from 5 to 20 minutes.

• After the baby is born, the uterus continues contracting although with less intensity than during the first two stages.

• The placenta spontaneously separates from the wall of the uterus and is expelled.

• You may be asked to push with the contractions to deliver the placenta, or doctor may guide the placenta out using firm pressure.

• Placenta should be allowed to separate with strong traction or pulling on the cord. Otherwise placental tissue may be refrained inside the uterus, which can result in post part haemorrhaging.

During or just after birth, an injection of drug called syntometrine is injected in your thigh, which makes the womb contract strongly and delivers the placenta almost immediately.
 

The Lithotomic position, with the feet and thighs apart.