Induced births lead to higher rates of medical intervention and are not recommended in uncomplicated pre-term pregnancies, so why are they on the rise?
When Emma, a 30-year-old lawyer from Perth, was 30 weeks’ pregnant with her first child, she was told by her doctor that the baby had a big head.
This, the obstetrician told her, put her at risk of complications during birth, with the potential for the baby to get stuck in the birth canal if the pregnancy progressed to 40 weeks.
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