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 If I told you that I've heard of a free way  to reduce the length of labor, to reduce the C-section rate for those most at risk of a C section, all without increasing the risk for the baby, you'd likely tell me to sell my magic beans to someone else. 

But labor and delivery do not arrive in a uniform way at all hours of the day. In fact, spontaneous labors tend to occur at night, with birth in the early hours of the morning. Using this fact, the researchers I speak with in this episode share what they found by dissecting the time of day into 1 hour slots to measure how the starting time of induction impacts labor outcomes like duration and mode of delivery.  It turns out that timing can have dramatic effects on these outcomes--which may significantly impact a mother's experience of birth.

Time of Day of Induction Impacts the Total Duration of Labor: https://www.ajogmfm.org/article/S2589-9333(26)00009-1/fulltext