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Inducing labor: When to wait, when to induce

Inducing labor: When to wait, when to induce Considering inducing labor? Understand who makes a good candidate for inducing labor and why the intervention isn’t for everyone. By Mayo Clinic staff Nature controls most aspects of labor — but sometimes nature needs a nudge. If your health care provider decides you and your baby would [...]

Inducing labor

Inducing labor Reviewed by the BabyCenter Medical Advisory Board Last updated: December 2009 What does it mean to induce labor? If your labor doesn’t start on its own, your practitioner can use medication and other techniques to bring on (or induce) contractions. She can use some of the same methods to augment, or speed up, [...]

Inducing Labor: What Happens During Labor Induction

Methods of Inducing Labor Before your doctor decides to induce labor, you may hear talk about your Bishop score. This is a scoring system that helps the doctor assess whether labor should be induced and if induction will be successful. The scoring system measures the dilation, effacement, consistency, and position of the cervix, as well [...]

The Truth About Induction

The Truth About Induction Think you want to have labor induced? Think again. If it’s too early, it might be a bad idea. By Jeanne Faulkner When you’re feeling huge and miserable and rolling over in bed requires intervention, scheduling an induction like a hair appointment seems like a fabulous idea. But there’s a lot [...]

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