I believe we have yet to see all the results to the health of babies forced out of the womb prematurely in order to schedule childbirth. No studies currently available show the long-term effects of this drug on mothers and babies. One of the reasons for the high failure rate is the drug s inability to completely mimic the hormones that cause both muscles of the uterus to work together to squeeze baby out. Instead only one set of muscles are activated, causing the baby to be pounded out rather than squeezed out, often with the head of the baby smashing against an incomplete pelvic floor. These ineffective and incomplete contractions create a longer labor, tiring the mother out and often causing her to ask for pain-relieving drugs to counteract the intense and unending artificial contractions.
Inductions often fail because of an error in the due date.
He also reports that studies of management have not found that tests accurately identify postmature babies or that routine induction improves perinatal outcome. He observed no control infants, and gestational ages widely overlapped each other within grades. His signs are objective and have not been shown to have clinical importance. Sheila Kitzinger reports that over 70 percent of first-time mothers normally give birth 10 days after an estimated due date. Ahlden et al.