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Research suggests that delaying pregnancies beyond 39 weeks and avoiding delivery interventions when not medically necessary would improve infant health and reduce health-care costs.
PubMedElective Deliveries and Neonatal Outcomes in Full-Term Pregnancies - PubMedCesarean and induced delivery rates have risen substantially in recent decades and currently account for over one-third and one-fourth of US births, respectively. Initiatives to encourage delaying deliveries until a gestational age of 39 weeks appear to have slowed the increases but have not led to …