EBB 50 - How does maternal age affect pregnancy and birth?
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast we discuss inducing labor in someone who is 35 and older. Over time in the United States, for the past four decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people who are giving birth for the first time at age 35 and older. Today, roughly one in ten first time mothers is now considered advanced maternal age.
We will examine the risks and the evidence for induction in this population.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone in today's podcast we're going to talk about labor induction for advanced maternal age. |
| 0:06.1 | Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my |
| 0:14.7 | PhD and the founder of Evidence-based birth. Join me each week as we work together to get |
| 0:20.4 | evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals across the world. |
| 0:26.2 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:29.4 | See EvieBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. birth. |
| 0:33.4 | Come slash disclaimer for more details. Hi everyone and welcome back to the |
| 0:36.8 | evidence-based birth podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | Before we get started, I wanted to remind you all that we are having a free public webinar on November 8th, 9th, and 12th. |
| 0:46.4 | These will be three identical live webinars where I will be talking about the research evidence on elective induction at 39 weeks, including the newly published |
| 0:55.4 | arrived trial. |
| 0:56.9 | So if you want to register for that, just go to E.Birth.com slash webinar. |
| 1:02.1 | We are in the midst of doing a short series all about labor induction for |
| 1:06.3 | different reasons. We've already covered labor induction for when your water |
| 1:10.5 | breaks a term and for big babies and today we're going to talk |
| 1:13.8 | about inducing labor and someone who is 35 and older. Over time in the United States |
| 1:19.1 | for the past four decades there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people who |
| 1:24.4 | are giving birth for the first time at age 35 and older. The number of first babies |
| 1:29.4 | born to people who are 35 to 39 years old has increased from a little less than 2 per 1,000 in the year |
| 1:35.8 | 1973 to 11 per 1,000 in 2012. |
| 1:40.6 | Right now about 15% of people giving birth in the United States are doing so |
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