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

T HE TEXTBOOKS are clear: in humans, pregnancy lasts an average of 40 weeks. But averages are just that. Many women find themselves at the end of that period without any sign of contractions. In those ...

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 ...

No two deliveries, induced or not, are exactly alike. Here's what to know about induction and the factors that can affect ...

When a healthy, petite, 21-year-old pregnant Mississippi woman approached her due date, the physician instructed her to choose a date for her labor to be induced. She offered no medical justification ...

A transgender man has just welcomed a baby, candidly opening up about vaginal birth. “I ended up getting an epidural when labor got really intense,” Alex, who works as a personal trainer, exclaimed.

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 ...

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 ...

Boys born to mothers who needed their doctor to start or help along the birth may have a higher risk of autism, a study found. Boys whose mothers had labors that were induced, which stimulates the ...