She knew exactly what time she would check into the hospital to deliver her child.
Induction is a medical technique used to jump-start labor.
Drugs like Poticin are admitted intravenously to launch contractions. In the last decade, the number of induced-labor cases has doubled from 9 percent in 1989 to almost 20 percent in 1999, a recently released National Vital Statistics Report states. It s unclear how much of the increase in induced-labor cases is due to medical reasons and how many doctors and women are choosing to schedule births for the sake of convenience. Heumann planned to induce labor once she reached her 39th week of pregnancy because she had trouble birthing her first child who weighed almost 9 pounds at delivery. At Eisenhower Medical Center the induced-labor rate is higher than the national rate.