Your due date is actually a range of plus or minus 2 weeks. This means your care provider expects you to go into labor around your due date, but many women go past it. Your care provider won't let you go more than two weeks past your due date. If...
If you are pregnant, you should not use licorice root, despite its purported medicinal properties. None of these properties are proven, and licorice is potentially damaging to both mother and developing fetus. In addition, licorice root may cause...
At the end of 37 weeks, a fetus is considered full term, but normal gestation can continue for up to 42 weeks. There are a number of reasons for inducing labor, including a pregnancy going over 42 weeks, which could leave the baby at risk of not...
When it comes to when your baby makes her grand arrival into this world, often times you just have to let nature take its course. But if you are are seven-plus days overdue without any signs of labor, you may just be too uncomfortable to let...
