Length of pregnancy, type of delivery

Does induction increase my odds of having a cesarean?

Excluding scheduled cesareans from the table above, there were 12125 spontaneous labors and 3439 inductions. 9% 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	17	10	3	1	3	75%	3	16	7	30%
246	19	7	0	2	2	50%		17	5	23%
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	42	18	3	10	6	38%	2	32	12	27%	1
253	32	12	0	6	7	54%		26	5	16%
254	48	10	1	8	4	33%		40	6	13%	1
255	45	9	2	5	2	29%		40	7	15%	2
256	43	4	3	7	2	22%	1	36	2	5%	2
257	54	5	3	7	2	22%	2	47	3	6%	1
258	68	8	3	14	2	13%	2	54	6	10%	1
259	103	17	10	28	8	22%	6	75	9	11%	4
260	102	12	7	27	3	10%	3	75	9	11%	4
261	104	8	8	27	4	13%	4	77	4	5%	4
262	94	23	5	16	5	24%	3	78	18	19%	2
263	125	21	3	22	4	15%		103	17	14%	3
264	117	22	9	18	5	22%	6	99	17	15%	3
265	167	14	7	21	3	13%	5	146	11	7%	2
266	232	18	11	55	6	10%	5	177	12	6%	6
267	201	21	4	43	11	20%	3	158	10	6%	1
268	203	17	10	38	6	14%	9	165	11	6%	1
269	234	26	9	31	4	11%	8	203	22	10%	1
270	306	35	9	51	7	12%	4	255	28	10%	5
271	277	30	16	40	8	17%	13	237	22	8%	3
272	331	32	21	50	14	22%	11	281	18	6%	10
273	451	51	43	122	16	12%	37	329	35	10%	6
274	402	40	37	86	16	16%	34	316	24	7%	3
275	391	30	19	70	11	14%	12	321	19	6%	7
276	516	46	18	78	22	22%	16	438	24	5%	2
277	507	54	12	71	24	25%	8	436	30	6%	4
278	516	39	10	75	12	14%	6	441	27	6%	4
279	533	73	8	52	17	25%	5	481	56	10%	3
280	1086	114	30	138	37	21%	15	948	77	8%	15
281	657	57	6	87	12	12%	6	570	45	7%
282	577	65	11	84	18	18%	11	493	47	9%
283	558	52	8	84	19	18%	5	474	33	7%	3
284	518	62	9	97	24	20%	8	421	38	8%	1
285	526	69	1	87	18	17%	1	439	51	10%
286	540	70	7	98	28	22%	6	442	42	9%	1
287	605	75	7	159	31	16%	7	446	44	9%
288	472	71	8	134	35	21%	8	338	36	10%
289	395	46	9	116	23	17%	7	279	23	8%	2
290	390	60	4	121	36	23%	3	269	24	8%	1
291	280	48	6	98	22	18%	6	182	26	13%
292	229	43	0	100	16	14%		129	27	17%
293	202	24	2	77	13	14%	2	125	11	8%
294	163	44	2	81	30	27%	2	82	14	15%
295	101	17	2	60	14	19%	2	41	3	7%
296	55	13	1	27	10	27%	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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