The most important thing for a mother and the doctors is that the baby come into the world naturallyHowever, sometimes it is necessary to give a little push to the mother and the fetus when giving birth since otherwise it would pose a risk for one of them, even for both.
This type of labor called induced is carried out by a risk series, such as hypertension, diabetes, uterine infections, disease of the fetus itself or the 42-week full gestation period.
This induced labor causes the mother and the newborn to be given a necessary and fast medical assistance to avoid suffering from cardiac or pulmonary pathologies, malformations that require emergency surgical intervention, etc.
This Induced labor should be performed when:
- Premature rupture of membranes - On certain occasions the bag of water breaks but without any type of contraction, so the obstetrician enters the pregnant woman to keep her under observation for a maximum of 24 hours, controlling the fetus at all times by monitoring the mother. If after this time the contractions do not appear, the delivery.
- The gestation period comes to term and has no symptoms of giving birth - When the mother has a time of 41 weeks and 3 days it is induced directly to cause labor.
- Meconium in amniotic fluid - This occurs when the baby has defecated inside the placenta, that means that everything is not going well.
- Delayed intrauterine growth - When the baby stops growing at a normal rate.
Risks of induced labor
Being a longer process than normal deliveries, mom feels much more tired being able to give the case of having fever and an excess of contractions and dehydration, in addition, of the consequent risk of the use of the instruments (infections, hemorrhages, pain, etc).
On the other hand, the baby feels pressure to come out so your well-being is reduced in these moments of going out into the world. It is for this reason that cesarean sections are used much more for this type of delivery.