There is very clear data that inducing labor at this point reduces the number of cesarean sections because of fetal distress.
More Quotes from Charles Lockwood:
Up until the mid-19th century serving refreshments and socializing on the stoops was done by every income group all over the city,Charles Lockwood
There were horrific cases occurring among women going through a trial of labor. There's a lot of hard, irrefutable data on the increased risk. It would have been immoral to not have come out with the new recommendation.
Charles Lockwood
I think a lot (of the increase) has come about because physicians don't want to be awakened in the middle of the night, so they schedule patients when it is convenient.
Charles Lockwood
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Sadness QuotesBased on Keywords: cesarean, fetal, inducing
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de Montaigne
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.
Jane Birkin
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
Hugo Claus