Listen to this Dr discuss "stalled labors".
An article about the Friedman's Curve, the guidelines many/most Drs use to judge if labor is progressing "adequatly"
The Friedman Curve: An Obsolete Approach to Labor Assessment
These researchers concluded that the Friedman curve likely represents an ideal, rather than an average, curve.
http://womens-health.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2003/219/1
The study
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12388957?dopt=Abstract
