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how do we write stages of labour? ARABIC OR ROMAN NUMERALS? - sherry


Posted: Jul 23, 2014

how to write stages of labour:  stage 1,2,3 or I, II, III?

Labor in America, not labour... - I believe it is Roman numerals.

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NM

She might be in India - I think they spell - it the British way there. nm

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We are not in the UK, We are in America - But Roman numerals-nm

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