Length of pregnancy, type of delivery

Does induction increase my odds of having a cesarean?

Excluding scheduled cesareans from the table above, there were 12344 spontaneous labors and 3381 inductions. 8% of the spontaneous labors ended in cesarean and 19% of the inductions ended in cesarean.

Some people have looked at these numbers, and the fact that there seems to be an increase in cesareans after 40W0D, and wondered if there's a correlation. In other words, do "timeline-based" inductions lead to increased cesareans? That analysis gets tricky, so I'll just post the numbers and let you decide yourself what's going on.

Day	Total			Following inductions				Following spontaneous labor
	Vaginal Births	Unscheduled Cesareans	Scheduled Cesareans	Vaginal Births	Unscheduled Cesareans	% Unscheduled Cesareans	Scheduled Cesareans	Vaginal Births	Unscheduled Cesareans	% Unscheduled Cesareans	Scheduled Cesareans
245	15	9	3	1	2	67%	3	14	7	33%
246	18	6	0	1	2	67%		17	4	19%
247	19	5	0	1	1	50%		18	4	18%
248	25	8	2	5	4	44%	1	20	4	17%	1
249	22	15	0	3	10	77%		19	5	21%
250	32	5	0	6	4	40%		26	1	4%
251	26	1	0	2		0%		24	1	4%
252	41	18	3	10	6	38%	2	31	12	28%	1
253	32	12	0	6	7	54%		26	5	16%
254	45	10	1	8	4	33%		37	6	14%	1
255	44	9	1	5	2	29%		39	7	15%	1
256	42	4	3	7	2	22%	1	35	2	5%	2
257	54	5	3	7	2	22%	2	47	3	6%	1
258	67	8	3	14	2	13%	2	53	6	10%	1
259	101	17	10	27	8	23%	6	74	9	11%	4
260	99	12	6	25	3	11%	3	74	9	11%	3
261	102	8	8	26	4	13%	4	76	4	5%	4
262	94	23	5	16	5	24%	3	78	18	19%	2
263	121	21	3	22	4	15%		99	17	15%	3
264	112	22	8	16	5	24%	6	96	17	15%	2
265	165	13	7	21	3	13%	5	144	10	6%	2
266	222	17	10	49	5	9%	5	173	12	6%	5
267	190	21	4	41	11	21%	3	149	10	6%	1
268	199	17	9	38	6	14%	8	161	11	6%	1
269	229	26	9	29	4	12%	8	200	22	10%	1
270	300	35	9	50	7	12%	4	250	28	10%	5
271	273	29	15	40	8	17%	12	233	21	8%	3
272	325	32	21	50	14	22%	11	275	18	6%	10
273	442	51	43	120	16	12%	37	322	35	10%	6
274	396	40	37	85	16	16%	34	311	24	7%	3
275	807	30	19	69	11	14%	12	738	19	3%	7
276	507	46	17	76	22	22%	16	431	24	5%	1
277	502	54	12	71	24	25%	8	431	30	7%	4
278	509	38	10	74	12	14%	6	435	26	6%	4
279	524	73	8	51	17	25%	5	473	56	11%	3
280	1070	113	29	135	37	22%	15	935	76	8%	14
281	644	57	6	83	12	13%	6	561	45	7%
282	567	65	11	83	18	18%	11	484	47	9%
283	549	50	8	84	18	18%	5	465	32	6%	3
284	508	62	9	96	24	20%	8	412	38	8%	1
285	522	68	1	86	17	17%	1	436	51	10%
286	535	69	7	97	27	22%	6	438	42	9%	1
287	593	75	7	155	31	17%	7	438	44	9%
288	466	70	8	133	34	20%	8	333	36	10%
289	386	46	9	114	23	17%	7	272	23	8%	2
290	384	60	4	121	36	23%	3	263	24	8%	1
291	278	46	6	97	21	18%	6	181	25	12%
292	219	43	0	96	16	14%		123	27	18%
293	197	24	2	77	13	14%	2	120	11	8%
294	161	44	2	80	30	27%	2	81	14	15%
295	99	17	2	60	14	19%	2	39	3	7%
296	55	12	1	27	9	25%	1	28	3	10%
297	36	13	0	13	8	38%		23	5	18%
298	18	4	0	8	1	11%		10	3	23%
299	19	6	1	6	4	40%	1	13	2	13%
300	12	2	0	3	1	25%		9	1	10%

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