Is it possible

[Gabi]

never to go into labour? Or not to go in time? I mean, is there some sort of condition where your hormones just don't react properly?

I'm not feeling impatient to get the baby out, but a couple of people have mentioned to me 'perhaps your body just can't do it'. I had two miscarriages, and in both cases my cervix didn't open up and let the baby out properly. I have been on hormones in order to support this pregnancy, and now I am overdue and (I thought I had been) but I haven't dilated or effaced at all. At my BPP scan yesterday the tech looked surprised and said my cervix was long, very closed etc. One of my aunts said she could never get her body to go into labour on its own either and that she was induced with all four of her babies.

Like I said, I don't feel like it's urgent for me to get the baby out, but when they say 'your body knows what it's doing' I feel like I have proof from experience that when it comes to pregnancy, my body doesn't have a clue I don't want to be induced. But I don't know when to start thinking that the risks for baby staying in are bigger than the risks of an induction and I'm looking for information. I mean, if I get into my 43rd week, what then? kwim? My OB doesn't want to let me go past 42 weeks (and this is a stretch for him).

Also, most of the things I can find on the net say that a lot of the time 'overdue' babies are really babies whose GA is wrong. But we are certain about dates because I was closely monitored in my first trimester. I had a dating scan at 8 weeks and measured 8 weeks. I tracked ovulation and it matches exactly to the scan. If I'm a week out then baby measured a week ahead at 7 weeks, I saw a heartbeat at 5 weeks, I had hcg of 6000 the day my period was due and 24000 at 5 weeks. I just don't think that's really possible. So I am actually overdue.