I'm feeling a lot of external pressure to 'do something' - not sure whether it is out of concern for me and Phoenix or because people are fed up waiting... DH is going to try and shield me from it as much as possible, and I have a supportive birth team sticking by me. I've got an appointment with the Fetal Medicine unit at the hospital this morning for routine tests and monitoring of Phoenix. I wonder what they are going to say.
I think the fact care providers do this is just plain evil! Nine times out of ten it is completely unwarranted. An Estimated Due Date is just that - estimated.

And they'll come up with all sorts of excuses: baby is too big/small (3rd trimester ultrasound can be up to 1kg off, for a baby I don't have to tell you that's heaps), not enough amniotic fluid/too much amniotic fluid (anywhere between 5 and 25 is normal), baby is not practising their breathing enough/is practising their breathing too much (now if that's one they haven't just pulled out of their backsides...). It's very rare that the risks of keeping a baby in the womb until they are ready is more than the risks of an induction or c-section. It really annoys me that they'll put a woman under this much stress based on battery-hen logic (of which the Friedman's curve also relies). While it is normally done under the "best intentions", it's wrong and they should stop and save it for real issues, not created ones. Good luck Dusty, may your care providers use discretion and reason.