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

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, ...

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 ...

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

A new Tel Aviv University study has determined that natural, spontaneous deliveries and induced deliveries following the rupture of the amniotic sac in the mother share similar neonatal outcomes, ...

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 ...

At 40 weeks pregnant, many moms are searching for anything—anything—to get labor going. So when one TikTok user saw a video claiming that sprinting could induce labor, she decided to give it a shot ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pregnant mom's attempt to induce labor has gone viral for sourcing an unlikely candidate. At 39 weeks pregnant, Lizzy Harmon Beshea was doing "any and everything" to go into labor naturally. The ...