Rinku Sengupta@SBISR: Patient centered Approach to labour care

Rinku Sengupta@SBISR: Patient centered Approach to labour care: Today let us talk about postdated pregnancy that is pregnancy that continues beyond your expected date of delivery.In recent times we have seen a large number of mothers being induced for this indication .Let us see why.As the pregnancy continues beyond term,the chances of liqour (water around the baby) getting less and the baby getting less oxygen increases. But nobody knows the exact risk of that happening with you at say term +1 day,term+2 days and so on and so forth.After doing research on thousands of women some international medical organisations have found that the risk of leaving a low risk pregnancy beyond 41 weeks (calculated from first trimester ultrasound) is slightly high compared to leaving them beyond that time awaiting spontaneous labour.The absolute risk to the babby is still very low ,approximately 500 inductions or more may need to be done to save one baby from this risk. Therefore it is important to understand the risk benefit balance in every decision.