Expectant Moms Should Wait Out Due Date For Deliveries, Experts Urge
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 08:28
in Health & Medicine
Many parents become anxious toward the end of a pregnancy, when women are sleepless, fatigued and finding it difficult to perform their daily activities. Technology during the past 10 years has made labor induction easier and more successful, and now, more than ever before, deliveries are planned during the last few weeks of pregnancies. But studies are showing that a delivery even two weeks early can be associated with newborn complications, according to a maternal-fetal medicine specialist.
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