Having a full-term pregnancy is best for your baby's health. Full-term pregnancies usually last about 40 weeks. When a baby is born earlier than 37 weeks, it's called a preterm or premature birth.

Sometimes it's done before the pregnancy reaches full-term, if the risk of continuing the pregnancy ... Recent studies show that elective induction at 39 weeks of pregnancy can be a reasonable option ...

"If they make abortion legal (at) full term (pregnancy), or if they keep it at the 20-week (restriction), we could try to 14 weeks," LeMahieu said. "At that point we'll try to build consensus and ...

gmail.com Objective To determine the independent association of post-term pregnancy with neonatal outcome ... post-term (≥42+0 weeks), late term (41+0 to 41+6 weeks) and full term (39+0 to 40+6 weeks) ...