Maternal perceptions of the experience of attempted labor induction and medically elective inductions: analysis of survey results from listening to mothers in California

摘要

The determination of what was a medical induction was based on maternal responses to the question. “Why did your maternity care provider try to start your labor?” The response options were, “They were worried that I was “overdue,” “My water had broken and they worried about infection,” “The baby needed to be born soon due to a health problem (for one or both of us),” “My baby was getting too big,” “I wanted to control the timing for work or other nonmedical reasons,” “I wanted to give birth with a specific provider,” “Baby was full term: it was close to my due date,” or “Some other reason” and women could check all they felt applied. If a woman indicated one of the first three reasons it was classified as a medically indicated induction, even if she also checked one of the nonmedical indications. The open-ended responses to the “some other reason” option were also reviewed and classified as medically indicated or elective.