Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're overdue or your water breaks early, you may be looking into ways to induce labour. (Getty Images) (Prostock-Studio via ...

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 ...

Sometimes your baby needs to arrive before your body gets the memo. When that happens, your provider may recommend an induction – using medicine or other techniques to help labor get started.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.