Cindy Preisel, pregnant with her third baby, decided to venture out on a shrimp boat. While in open waters, she experienced contractions that only kept increasing. She was going into labor. With no ...

That said, unless things are cut short by a C-section, all women go through three precise stages of labor and childbirth: labor itself (which includes early labor, active labor and transitional labor) ...

Depending on your health and the health of the pregnancy, doctors may choose to induce labor anytime after 39 weeks.