posted March 11, 2007 09:42 AM         

Have you tried Nipple stimulation, it might at least get your mind off things for a little while.

posted March 11, 2007 12:03 PM         

I still say you ought to be an author.

Love,

posted March 11, 2007 12:44 PM         

The last few days before you pop are the pits
CJ was a week late….. my water broke on the evening of the day my OB/GYN gave me my appointment to be induced -- maybe that’s the key!! Sort of an “alright young man, if you’re not coming out of there RIGHT NOW, we’re going to MAKE you come out!!” type thing…..
Gawd I was so sick of being pregnant!! You can’t lie on either side or your back or your stomach, you don’t want to sit down because it’s a struggle to get up, you don’t want to drink very much or you’ll spend the next few hours ten feet from the bathroom….. truly a test of patience…..

Z

Xena ~

posted March 11, 2007 03:55 PM         

Hi Fayte, good to see you!
I'm laughing that you think I haven't tried that.
nipple/orgasm/prostaglandins from semen was the first thing!
Actually, I am so not a horn dog.. I'm far too uncomfortable.. but we considered it a labour of love. hehe.
I'm contracting today, they're pretty crampy, so who knows.
I'd love to trust in my body.

Maybe that's the key.. threats!

posted March 11, 2007 09:41 PM         

Take heart... in the event that you would have to be induced, it may not be as bad as you fear.

With my daughter I was induced and I dreaded it for the same reasons you do. All she did was break my water and four and a half hours later she was here. No pitocin, no monitors (also no tub, but that's because someone else was occupying it... we tried to wait her out, but baby was in a hurry once her home was drained!) It was a rough, wild, super-intense ride, but as far as inductions go, I couldn't have hoped for better.

I hope you have the birth you're wishing for, but if he needs a little coaxing, there's still hope for an almost completely intervention free experience.

Love to you.

posted March 11, 2007 10:56 PM         

Love your sense of humour, btw. Maybe we all can laugh about this later on.

posted March 12, 2007 12:40 AM         

castor oil in a shot of oj. that is what i did with both girls. it clears you out too so you don't poop while pushing the baby out.

posted March 13, 2007 07:08 PM         

I came online to update anyway...
No progress yet. If this were a UPS package, I'd want my money back.

Five days over!!!! Five days!!!!

Oh man, I am sick of being pregnant.( Of course I said that last month, so you can copy that and send it up a million times.)

Nothing new to report, My baby boy is snuggled happily where he is. I keep telling him boobies await him if he'd only get out, thinking boobies are better than womb... but apparantly he's not a t!t-man.
Silly thing.

posted March 13, 2007 07:39 PM         

he'll come when he wants to. Who are we to force nature?

Perhaps its a stupid question.. but I am allowed to ask because I have never carried a child full term...

I know you can't be comfortable, my dear pixie, and you are impatient and eager and wanting to get it done!!..

and this question is for all the mommies..

tell me, what's the harm in waiting?
(besides all those factors mentioned previously..)

have I missed the literature and medical reports about the dangers of overdue babies?

any info I have been able to get about long terms seems weak.

I mean, this is hardly an exact science.

I don't mean to come across as unsupportive, but its breaking my heart that pix might have to give up her plan of home birth, for an induction.

And I don't believe doctors always know best, especially when it comes to childbirth.

posted March 13, 2007 08:39 PM         

He's coming.

Take care,
Love,
GG

posted March 13, 2007 08:54 PM         

Unless you have a good midwife.

I personally think that Pixie's little man is inside his mama's belly having a good laugh at all of us. Can you picture it?!

Who are we to say he is late? Whenever he comes, he'll be right on time!

posted March 13, 2007 10:22 PM         

MK, I'll post some articles if I can find them. ( pregnancy is all I research nowadays)

I agree that medical people are too quick to induce, and that is my fear, as I have planned a home birth and once you commit to a hospital experience that starts with an intervention ( a gel to soften your cervix and pitocin for contractions) you set yourself up for more interventions if it doesn't go exactly as planned.
I love the stories of the women who were induced and things went beautifully... ( Thanks, F U!) but knowing my 'effective' cervix, it wouldn't go according to plan.

I hope I go on my own. Believe me, it's my baby, not me. If I could evict him from sheer will, I would have already.
I'm sure he's fine, he is still moving well.. but I know my dates are right in this direction. ( If anything, I thought I'd be sooner!)

When babies go for too long, there is a possibilitiy of the placenta not working as effectively. Like any organ, when it reaches maturity, it ceases to function as well... so the Doctors and midwives monitor the baby more when you are suspected to be post dates.
Genrally Doctors will induce for convenience it seems..( they treat pregnancy like an illness you deal with and treat) but midwives take the more natural route.( They treat pregnancy like a natural transition in life that you moderate and respond to.)

Mine are waiting until I am over 41 weeks before sending me for an u/s on friday morning. They will assess the fluid around baby, his estimated size, his response ( he's moving well still, definitely) basically, a non-stress test.
From then on it will be determined what path to follow. I am hoping to go before, naturally.
I will throw any of my ideologies out the window for a healthy baby. I don't care how I give birth as long as he's healthy. I can heal.
I didn't come this far to pack it in.

I agree with you MK, but at the same time, I am taking no chances.. not that I'd let a Doctor steamroll me into something based on a minute percentage and fear mongering.... I don't roll that way. Which is why I am with Midwives.....
There are so many inspirational stories of post dates babies thriving, and not even being truly 'post' at all.
But there are also those other ones.

It breaks my heart too. It will be the last option.... but there is such an element of "I dunno..." about the whole thing that it is more frustrating than you know. ( I have a LOT of fixed signs in my chart, I like to know what's going on!!!)

posted March 13, 2007 11:42 PM         

If I've told the story, forgive me. It seems I've mentioned it several times, but never went into the details, so here it is. If nothing else, it will give you something to read while you're passing time.

I chose my midwife to get away from the doctor who delivered my son... not a bad doctor by any means, just... a doctor.

Baby was due on a Saturday. It just so happened that that particular weekend my midwife was going to be out of town, and the only other person who was qualified to do a waterbirth was also out of town. Apparently this had never happened before. That left the doctor at my midwife's office, but HE was also going to be out of town, so all deliveries were being handled by the one doctor I left in the first place.

Amazing, considering that he's in a completely different practice and the hospital I chose this time is not his primary hospital. (Again, a change I made to get completely away from him and his kind.)

I had to choose between being induced by my midwife or hoping I wouldn't go into labor until Monday. I'd been having regular contractions already for weeks, so I was afraid to wait. I also didn't want to be induced, but in the end, I decided induction was the lesser of the evils.

On paper now this seems pretty mundane, but for me at that time it was monumental. You know what it's like to prepare for something like this, so I'm sure you can understand the devastation I was feeling.

We went to the hospital on Thursday night to be induced. The only problem was that the hospital only has one birthing tub and it was occupied. That mother had already been there for about 20 hours, so we figured by the time it was time she would be long done and we would get the tub.

As it was, I gave birth on dry land lying on my back... everything I didn't want, after all. I was able to skip the stirrups, though, so that was a plus.

I know you're just supposed to be happy to have a healthy baby in the end, but I did (and still do) feel a sense of loss over not having the opportunity to birth my child in the way I had intended. It's difficult to explain the extent of it to someone who hasn't been in those shoes, but I know you understand.

So, that said, from the very bottom of my heart, I do wish for you the birth that you've been planning for. I know how very much something like that can mean.

posted March 14, 2007 09:46 AM         

It's just hard to have to respond in the negative, when people ask, well intentioned though they may be... You know what I mean.
I had come online to update anyway... I figured it was time, as everyone who was interested would have assumed I did give birth because I hadn't been on in a while.

Thanks for sharing your story Future. I appreciate it.

Well, I woke up with no contractions whatsoever, but baby woke me with gentle movement. I was even able to prop my pillows in a way that my hips held up overnight enough that I could sleep in a bit.
No contractions at this point, I take to be a good thing. Because so far I've just had a bunch of tightenings that never coordinated themselves enough to do much of anything. So the absence of them is actually hopeful, maybe they're gathering energy for later.