 For this non-blinded randomized clinical trial RCT we will recruit approximately 670 women which meet the inclusion criteria across three sites Eastern Virginia Medical School EVMS, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences UAMS and Obstetrix Medical Group, in California. When the patient is being scheduled for induction by her physician or when she presents to LD for induction or in labor, but her cervical dilation on admission is less than 4 cm, the participants will be consented, and then randomized into a study intervention group. Both groups will receive maintenance IV hydration with Lactated Ringers LR solution: Group I will receive LR at 125 mlhr and group II will receive LR at 250mlhr. Other than the rate of maintenance IV infusion, the two groups will receive routine intrapartum care. 