Exactly right. I do the same thing. For one, I regularly tell people about my induction with Amelia and how much I regret agreeing to it. I don't want anyone to go in thinking it's going to be sunshine and daisies, when it's anything but. I also usually - not always - add that Ianto's birth, an induction as well as a stillbirth, was a fairly good birth aside from the outcome. I'd change some things about it, yes, but I'm not as mentally scarred as I am by Amelia's.
But I also hold my breath and wish every woman could just skip the 32-week mark, because that was when Ianto died. That doesn't mean I expect their babies to die that week, just as I don't expect every induction to go badly. It just means I'm projecting my own fears onto their pregnancies or births.







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