{"id":3209,"date":"2010-10-12T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2010-10-12T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:39:53","slug":"inductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"Inductions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a good article about the “elective” induction, going over the results of some studies that were done: Rigging the Election: When it comes to elective induction, are women asking for it?<\/a><\/p>\n

I admit, I utterly bristle when I read articles about how women are asking for inductions all the time. Every time someone tells me a story about being induced it’s the doctor<\/i> who suggests it – and for reasons that are not<\/i> medical indications for induction. I hear from women about how they get to their due date and the doctor induces the next day (average gestation for a first-time pregnancy is around 41 weeks, not to mention that due dates are hardly set in stone unless you have done fertility treatments!). Sigh. A big baby is not a reason to induce – inductions before your body is ready has a high chance of ending in c-section, which is usually the very thing the patient is wanting to avoid by inducing early before the baby gets “too big”!<\/p>\n

Induction is a very good<\/em> tool in some situations. But, like any tool, it has its risks and side-effects and should be used only when it’s actually needed. Baby and mother both benefit by going into labor on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a good article about the “elective” induction, going over the results of some studies that were done: Rigging the Election: When it comes to elective induction, are women asking for it? I admit, I utterly bristle when I read articles about how women are asking for inductions all the time. Every time someone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[508,507],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birth-2","tag-inductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}