OB appointment at 40wks.....wants to give VE? Should I?

[Visitor7]

Great to hear everything went well today!! As I was approaching 40 weeks with Emily, I told the hospital under no circumstances will they be inducing me if me and bub were doing fine. I had her a day early, so fortunately I didn't have to worry about that.
Hopefully it's a good sign that bub is being quiet today.
Sending you lots of *labour vibes* hun!

[Snacks]

Yay to all of the above, Ren! How exciting to know that your baby's birth is just around the corner
I too am sending you some lovely labour vibes...

[Jennifer13]

*Labour vibes* hun, stick to your guns and they'll only do what you want them to.

[Shanti]

Thanks girls for the lovely messages

I sure hope these pains i've been getting since 3pm mean something.... that walk may have helped after all .... but not getting hopes up.... lol

[Lovenhope]

Hi Ren,
Just popping on to wish you all the best for the upcoming birth. Can't wait to read the BA.

[Cyathea]

VE's before labour are in my opinion completely meaningless, and even worse, I feel they are used as a tool to gauge how compliant a patient you will be during labour, they are just so unnecessary, i simply cannot believe they are still performed.

I've been through 3 pregnancies, and have had ONE VE, that was during my first labour, I have since thought about them a lot, and researched the uselessness of them, and the downsides of having them done, and never will I ever have any, unless it is a medcal emergency.

This Gloria Lemay article has a good comment in it about some of the detrimental effects VE's in labour can have...

www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/pushing.asp

[Shanti]

Cyathea - thank you for that article. Very good article!!