As you approach the end of pregnancy, circumstances may arise where you may choose to have your labor prematurely started. This is known as an elective labor induction. It's considered an elective ...

If you’re pregnant, you may think your body will begin the labor process on its own. But sometimes that's not possible and medical professionals need to help start it through labor induction. This ...

Inducing labor in healthy women at 39 weeks into their pregnancy reduces the need for cesarean section and is at least as safe for mother and baby as waiting for spontaneous labor. Choosing to induce ...

To induce labor, doctors will either use medication or a catheter-like device. The only natural option for labor induction that is safe and may work is nipple stimulation. Do not rely on natural ...

This Women's Health Week, we spoke with Dr. Vidanka Vasilevski from the Center for Quality and Patient Safety Research within Deakin's Institute for Health Transformation about her research published ...

Three women imprisoned in the Arizona Department of Corrections while pregnant claim their labor was induced against their will. The women say they were forced to have their labor induced, despite ...

Doctors may induce labor when continuing pregnancy becomes riskier for the mother or baby than delivering safely.

From 2016 to 2024, there was an increase in labor induction rates across all maternal age groups and across all six race and Hispanic origin groups, according to a March data brief published by the ...