This is called inducing labor, or induction. Instead of waiting for labor to start naturally, your doctor or midwife will use drugs or a procedure to start it sooner. Induction can be the right ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections is inducing the labor of pregnant prisoners against their will, according to three women incarcerated at the Perryville prison in Buckeye. The women say they ...

This is known as an elective labor induction. It's considered an elective induction when it's scheduled for convenience and not for a medical reason. There are pros and cons to this process.

Yet more doctors are now advising their patients to induce labor one week earlier. A growing body of research and clinical trials, including one published on July 20 in the journal PLOS Medicine ...

“When you’re 39 weeks [and] four days with no signs of labor so you get the Starbucks ‘Pregnancy Drink’ and hope for the best ...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that exercise, sex, and eating certain foods may help move labor along. But it’s best to talk with a healthcare professional before attempting to induce labor.

Michigan researchers also found that the practice of inducing labor at 39 weeks was not applied equally across demographic groups, with those being induced more likely to be birthing people who ...

We propose that the route of entry of the labor-inducing inflammatory signal into the intrauterine compartment may critically influence the fetal outcome. Timed-pregnant C57BL/6 and FVB mice were ...