I'm trying to understand why women have their labours induced, usually at term + 10, when there is no medical reason and mother and baby are doing fine?
Having done lots if reading up about it, the benefits and risks of induction versus leaving nature take it's course it seems to me more risky to induce then to leave things be.
Term is considered 37-42 weeks so why do medics need to interfere before then? It realky gets me annoyed tbh and it seems a lot of women feel they don't have the choice to sit and wait. No one stays pregnant forever. I personally would prefer a c-sect to induction if there was a medical reason for it. Forcing the body into labour using artificial chemicals sounds so wrong and painful to me.
I'm not judging women's personal choices rather I'm questioning the nhs protocols and the way women are often made to believe that there is something wrong with their bodies if they don't go into labour by term+ 10 and are made to feel fearful that something bad work happen to their babies if they go 'overdue'.