Depending on your health and the health of the pregnancy, doctors may choose to induce labor anytime after 39 weeks.

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 ...

These pregnant mamas are eager to get things moving and grooving. There is a long list of bizarre hacks that pregnant women will try to induce labor — but this new one has experts scratching their ...

Inducing labor for women with complications during pregnancy may be falling out of favor in the United States. National health data shows induced childbirths doubled in frequency between 1990 and 2010 ...

A study in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology finds that simple glucose supplementation reduces length of induced labor. The study (currently available online as an Article in Press, in ...

Labour may not always start on its own. In such instances, healthcare providers may suggest an induction. Labour induction helps your body begin the process of giving birth with the help of medical ...