A new review including over 100 clinical trials has found that 13 common methods for medically inducing labor are similarly effective, but their safety profiles differ according to clinical context.

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.

Labor induction is one of the most common medical procedures in the world, with nearly one-quarter of women who deliver in the U.S. undergoing the procedure each year (totaling roughly 1 million).

If you're facing an induction, you're not alone – and there's no one-size-fits-all experience. If you need some help getting your labor going (or keeping it going), you may be given a drug called ...

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 ...

The large study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, found that elective induced labor at 39 weeks resulted in a lower likelihood of certain complications and did not result ...

Many women want a different kind of pregnancy and birth the next time around. Many want to see the same one or two midwives throughout, and want to choose where they give birth. And when the time ...