Can concentrate at work! Keep logging onto babycenterdotcom to read about other people's experiences with upcoming due dates and labor signs, symptoms, or lack thereof. I think based upon my research on google, it is more common that women give birth beyond their due dates than before, but I'm not really sure how accurate the statistics are that I've read. All I know is this suspense is killing me. I really thought that I'd have a baby by now. Although my EDD is still 3 days away, I'm getting so impatient. Not only am I fed up with all the discomfort, fatigue, etc., i'm also getting nervous about having to be induced. I had planned to last as a long as I could without pain medication, but if I have to be induced, I may not have much of a fighting chance without pain meds. Should I then schedule to have my induction off island where an epidural will be certain? Or if I'm induced here, will we also be able to schedule an anethesiologist so that an epidural will be certain? What will they do if I have to be induced? When will I be induced. I know that my doctor has said that they do not like to let patients go beyond 41 weeks, so that means I could have an induction next week sometime.
My next doctor's appointment is tomorrow, so obviously I'll have a lot of questions and will probably have a lot of answers then. I am in uncharted territory. I'm almost to my due date, and still no baby. Just some braxton hicks which are irritating and sometimes a bit cramping and a VERY SLOW losing of my mucus plug. C'mon baby, when ya coming?
I really hope its not on my birthday.
Seriously? I so thought you would have had that baby by now!!
ReplyDeleteI went into labor the night before my induction, so my induction went pretty fast. They got started at 6am, had anesthesia there at 10 and Skeeter was born at 12. I've heard of some inductions that last much longer.
I hope you get all your questions answered tomorrow!
I know how you feel!! Brogan was born the day before his due date, and I didn't have really promising signs either except the mucus plug was slowly showing over the past seven or eight days. Hang in there - you can do this! As for the epi - all a choice - remember, you can do it even if there is no epi - they've only become really popular in recent years! Waiting for an exciting update...
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