I just wanted to say GOOD ON YOU!!! It's your body, and your choice. I went in for daily monitoring with my first bub from just over 41 weeks and he came on his own accord at exactly 42 weeks. I have heard of women given birth in the 43rd week but mainly in home birth situations - as long as your baby is healthy I can't see what is wrong with that - the medical community surely can't argue this.
Ignore the numbers (how many weeks etc) and the clock - your baby and your body will do what is right when the time is right!
We found DTD the best thing for bringing on labour - I would have contractions within half an hour (and this finally turned into real labour the last time!). The midwife actually suggested we go home and do it to help things along, the natural prostaglandins in semen help ripen the cervix. Evening primrose oil also is full of natural prostaglandins and you can take these orally and internally overnight (wear a pad). There is lots of info on using EPO this way on midwifery websites like Non-Pharmaceutical Induction - from Ronnie Falc?o's Midwife Archives template
All the best
Last edited by bronners; December 3rd, 2008 at 04:26 PM.
Thank you everyone for your really positive support.
I was really having a bit of anxiety this afternoon thinking - oh I should have gone through with it...I worry that the placenta will be OK.
I will go for monitoring Fri & Sun and we have booked an induction for next Monday when I will be about 11-12 days overdue - I feel by then I have given it plenty of time and the worry about going too long will be too much for me.
I cant have an induction any earlier so that is fine and hopefully nature will take its course.
I have had heaps of tightenings in my tummy..even my friend noted them through my tight t shirt today and have had back pain this afternoon !! I think the nipple stim is working
I just had some brown stained mucous - which I am trying not to get too excited about as it could be just because of the S & S today.
SJH - heard about acupuncture - I will think about that - never done it before - is a massage any good??
Thanks for the information link bronners
Laranna - I happened to buy a pineapple 2 days ago and cut it up this afternoon and ate quite a few slices HTH!!
Starry - there as usual for me - I dont think it was particularly heroic it was just I didnt feel ready for labour...
Thanks again
Anna
Last edited by AnnaBelle; December 3rd, 2008 at 08:22 PM.
Intuition is a very powerful thing, I congratulate you for summoning up the courage to listen to it!
I'm sure you've done the right thing and those tightenings etc sound quite promising!
Sending you heaps and heaps of labour vibes, let us know how you go, I'll be thinking of you!!
AnnaBelle I second the acupuncture thing... my body was showing absolutely no signs of labour at 8 days over and after 2 sessions of acupuncture I did have early labour so definitely book in with a good acupuncturist if you can.
Thanks pixie!!
I may try it tomorrow if still no labour
I am in Brisbane - so if anyone knows of an acupuncturist - [please be sure to let me know I would appreciate it - we live inner city but will go any side of town.
If you didn't feel ready then you probably did the right thing. I had the gel applied at 41 weeks and nothing happened Bub obviously wasn't cooked enough. I ended up going to almost 43 weeks and Bub was induced and he came out with no trouble and was only 7lbs (I expected at least a 9 pounder he was so late!). The risk of something going wrong just because you're past 41 weeks is so so tiny. With monitoring (like you had at the hospital) it's basically zero.
One thing my OB said to me was to imagine what it would be like after I'd had the baby. He said that if it ended in a caesar, for example, I could at least say to myself (and the women at mothers' group) that I had waited as long as I could. If I'd gone at 41 weeks and it had ended in a caesar I'd always be second guessing myself. He was very right. One of my girlfriends had a caesar and she keeps going over and over what she did or didn't do 'right'.
Good on you hun. The brown staining is a wonderful sign, that is your show. I dont think you really need to be induced at all, I think you will go before the end of the week.
Some of the girls mentioned a pressure point above the inside of your ankle, near the back, about 3 finger widths up, in another thread. Try that, nice and firm.
When bub wants to come out, bubs will
You did the right thing.
I was induced the first time and it sucked!! Second time I went natural and it was fab!! 3rd time I was induced a week early and it again sucked!! I really hope you go natural!
Chase quietened down a week before I went naturally so I hope that's what bubs is doing for you
Thanks for the advice on induction - I have heard the drip is pretty full on so i hope to go with gel and waters breaking and hope it goes from there....
This is my last night to go into labour ...
Otherwise I am going in tomorrow morning at 6am for induction - I feel more ready mind and bodywise to go through with it and hope everything goes well - I hope I have progressed more than Wednesday when we called it off - the mucous plug coming out should hopefully mean that I am dialated a bit more ???
It's your body, and your choice. I went in for daily monitoring with my first bub from just over 41 weeks and he came on his own accord at exactly 42 weeks. I have heard of women given birth in the 43rd week but mainly in home birth situations - as long as your baby is healthy I can't see what is wrong with that - the medical community surely can't argue this.
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Bub obviously wasn't cooked enough. I ended up going to almost 43 weeks and Bub was induced and he came out with no trouble and was only 7lbs
(I expected at least a 9 pounder he was so late!). The risk of something going wrong just because you're past 41 weeks is so so tiny. With monitoring (like you had at the hospital) it's basically zero.
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