birth on the need to use adequate Antenatal care for each pregnancy, since these mothers tend to use less antenatal care for … care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers … this improves their use of maternal health services. Policy should also target mothers who have had the experience of child …

increases a woman's probability of having a CS. Also, delivery-related birth outcomes improve: maternal mortality, birth … injuries, and birth trauma decrease. The evidence is consistent with hospital-level specialization in CS leading to better … birth outcomes. …

inductions can explain about one-third of the overall increase in birth weights for term births between 2010 and 2013. …Early term birth is defined as birth at 37 or 38 weeks gestation. While infants born early term are not considered … infants born at term (39 or 40 weeks). Despite these known harms, we document a rise in early term births in the United States …