Health Tip: When to Induce Labor

Most often, when a woman is 2 weeks overdue

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(HealthDay News) -- Most pregnant women will go into labor naturally, but sometimes it's safer for doctors to induce labor.

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Here are reasons for why a doctor might decide to induce labor, courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians:

• Going two weeks or longer past the due date.
• Having no contractions after the woman's water breaks.
• Having high blood pressure.
• Having an infection in the uterus.
• Having diabetes.
• Having an insufficient amount of amniotic fluid surrounding the baby.

-- Diana Kohnle