Induced labour means your doctor helps your body begin labour artificially instead of waiting for it to start on its own. To do this, medicines or other medical techniques are used to bring on ...

If you're overdue or your water breaks early, you may be looking into ways to induce labour. (Getty Images) "Been pregnant for way too long." These lyrics, from the song Baby Mamma Dance, no doubt ...

Induction of labor is a routinely applied obstetric intervention designed to stimulate uterine contractions when delaying delivery poses a risk to maternal or neonatal health. A range of cervical ...

In the first study of its kind, researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin have shown that it is safe for first-time mothers to spend the first 24 ...

If your labour is being induced, it can feel a little different from what you imagined. You might have questions or even worries about how it will go, and that’s completely normal. The main thing to ...

If a pregnant woman is advised by a doctor to consider induced labour, she should seek a second opinion, especially if her gut feeling tells her otherwise. Dr Stephen Mutiso, a gynaecologist at ...

Increasing uptake of induced labour with birth at 39 weeks, especially in women from more socioeconomically deprived areas and in nulliparous women, could help reduce inequalities in perinatal ...

For obese pregnant women, elective induction of labor at 39 to 41 weeks of gestation may be a better choice than expectant management, the results of a study suggest. Compared with expectant ...

The exact due date of the royal baby has remained shrouded in mystery so Meghan could right now be looking at the foods to eat to induce an early labour. But is that even “a thing.” Can certain foods ...

Experts share that pregnant people may be interested in natural ways to jumpstart labor. However, they urge caution regarding castor oil. If you spend enough time in a pregnancy group or on a due date ...

CHICAGO - The biggest study of its kind suggests autism might be linked with inducing and speeding up labor, according to preliminary research findings. Labor is induced in increasing numbers of U.S.

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