How can you induce a woman to go into labor, and why would a doctor induce someone instead of just letting them give birth whenever it happens naturally?
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I don’t know how it exactly works in another countries.
I am a doctor from Mexico.
You question has two parts.
1) How? As some one else said before, it works via hormones, more specifically Oxitocin. Ocitocin Is a neologism made by two Greek words.
Oxi= fast and
Tokos=labor/vaginal delivery/pregnant woman just one step away from giving birth.
Sol literally means: To Fast Forward the labor.
We put it via IV in the saline solution and there is a mathematical formula to put that on a patient.
There is another wey tough, but I just don’t like it.
If you read a little bit of molecular mechanism of the labor, you will notice that is basically an inflammation chain reaction, so if you swollen the cervix that works. So some doctors just pinch the cervix with a needle or something else….. works like magic.
2) There are several situations in which you need to FF the labor, for example, some babys are ready to get out, but for some reason the mom’s body doesn’t work as expected, and after monitoring the baby you realize that is suffering inside, so your first action is to activate the normal mom’s system to pump the baby out.
Here in Mexico anyways, the overcrowded Hospitals doesn’t give you the chance to give every mom the time they deserve, so, even when mom’s fine, baby’s fine, and nothing wrong is going on, we just FF the delivery.
As you can imagine, there are other not so medical reasons to FF, for example, you’ve been in the hospital for 36 hours straight, you haven’t eat properly, you haven’t sleep properly and there is this lady who’s just came and you can not go home until she’s done delivering, so you can wait the 16 hours labor or you can just FF and in 30 minutes it will be it.
Hope this helps
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