They tell you that pregnancy will be, on average 40 weeks long. What “they” don’t tell you is that the last few weeks of that 40 weeks is way, way longer than the first few weeks.
For some reason, those last few weeks are even longer as they go beyond their due date. At some point, the doctor will likely suggest inducing your labor if your body doesn’t seem to want to do it on its own.
If you’d like to hear some experts discussing the how and why of induced labor, click on the TV screen below:

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I know, it’s hard. You’ve been pregnant for what feels like forever. You’re bigger than you ever have been, you’re uncomfortable, the baby likes to use your bladder as a punching bag – when he or she isn’t sitting on it, and you haven’t been able to eat your favorite foods since  you realized that baby doesn’t like it either. So, it’s tempting to try to speed things up a little bit – especially if all this is taking place in the heat of summer.
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If so, I’ve got good news for you. It’s Baby Week over at Discovery and here are a couple of episodes that I think Womb Within visitors may enjoy watching:
DELIVER ME: Episode, Now or Never Premieres Tuesday, June 10 at 8 PM ET/PT Complex pregnancies and high-risk births—these are worries for many parents-to-be, but they are everyday occurrences for Drs. Alane Park, Yvonne Bohn and Allison Hill.  Discovery Health’s new docu-series, DELIVER ME, follows the careers and lives of these three dynamic women—best friends who became partners in a demanding Los Angeles OB/GYN practice.  In this episode, cancer survivor Terri …read more