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Thanks girls.
The appointment well really well - VE wasn't even offered!! The MW i had last week should not have said that they'd do a VE!!! she got me worried for nothing....I saw the hospital's OB (all women do at 40wks) this time and he just said jump up on the bed and lie down and he felt my tummy, bub's position, heartbeat and then checked my BP.... all great. Baby engaged nicely..... he said to come back next week (Tues) for my weekly and they may do a VE then to see how my cervix is going......
Who knows by that stage I *may* want a VE being 41wks.... Or maybe not..... I'll decide at the time.
Had lots of nice prelabour pains last few days and sometimes when it feels like it's starting it stops! Hopefully any day now..... before Tuesday would be great!!!! :lol: bub is VERY quiet today..... hope its a sign!!
Hossy won't induce til you are at least 11 days over which is great news. Too early for me to worry about that yet anyway.
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glad to hear all is going so well !!
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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. :goodluck:
Sending you lots of *labour vibes* hun!
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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...
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*Labour vibes* hun, stick to your guns and they'll only do what you want them to.
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Thanks girls for the lovely messages :p
I sure hope these pains i've been getting since 3pm mean something.... that walk may have helped after all .... :pray: but not getting hopes up.... lol
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Hi Ren,
Just popping on to wish you all the best for the upcoming birth. Can't wait to read the BA. :goodluck::goodluck:
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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
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Cyathea - thank you for that article. Very good article!!
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Ren - what are u doing here? i said u were going to have ur bub yesterday! ur meant to be in hospy holding ur little one!
