Okay, after that sappy-ish post, some science.
Just wanting to share this New York Times article about the March of Dimes campaign to encourage families to wait to go into labor spontaneously, rather than inducing labor or planning a Cesarean at 37 weeks (the age at which newborns are medically considered “full term”) or whenever. The problems with pre-term induction, largely, are to do with lung and brain development. As the article states, “In a study published last December of babies demonstrated to have mature lungs before birth, those delivered at 36 to 38 weeks had two and a half times the number of complications compared with those delivered at 39 to 40 weeks.”
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