Some people like being pregnant. I am not one of those people. And I remember the seemingly never-ending stretch of ...

T HE TEXTBOOKS are clear: in humans, pregnancy lasts an average of 40 weeks. But averages are just that. Many women find themselves at the end of that period without any sign of contractions. In those ...

Living in Los Angeles, being 40 years old and pregnant is certainly not an anomaly. The only place it is ...

Move over, Mother Nature. First-time moms at low risk of complications were less likely to need a cesarean delivery if labor was induced at 39 weeks instead of waiting for it to start on its own, a ...

The large study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, found that elective induced labor at 39 weeks resulted in a lower likelihood of certain complications and did not result ...

Being induced in the early morning can shorten labour by several hours by matching uterine contractions up with the body’s natural circadian rhythms ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 02: (L-R) Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian attend The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in ...

There's fashionably late, and then there's downright rude. At least that seems to be the way full-term pregnancies are viewed by nearly everyone, from the soon-to-be parents themselves to friends, ...

When a healthy, petite, 21-year-old pregnant Mississippi woman approached her due date, the physician instructed her to choose a date for her labor to be induced. She offered no medical justification ...

A new review including over 100 clinical trials has found that 13 common methods for medically inducing labor are similarly effective, but their safety profiles differ according to clinical context.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although acupuncture is promoted as a way to induce labor in women who go past their due date, a new study adds to evidence doubting its usefulness. Researchers found that ...