It is TT who made a compilation showing that few regions and county councils have changed the routines around initiation of childbirth, so-called induction. January.

Starting a childbirth at 41 completed weeks of pregnancy instead of at 42 seems to be safer for the child's survival, new Swedish research shows.

Got to cancel the study

Ulla-Britt Wennerholm, chief physician and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg, is one of those who worked on the study.

- The study shows that there is a difference in the number of deaths between induction in weeks 41 and 42. At the same time, one should be a little cautious when interpreting the results because we had to cancel the study prematurely. The outcome might have looked somewhat different in a larger study, but the pattern would probably have been the same, she says in an article on the Sahlgrenska Academy site.

In the group that started after 41 full weeks, there were no deaths. In the second group, which started at 42 weeks, six dead children were registered. Five of the children were stillborn, one died shortly after birth. The deaths led to the premature termination of the study, which included 2,760 women instead of the planned 10,000.