Looks like it’s baby time

Posted by Emily on February 16, 2010

It frankly bothers me that women are induced so often. Really, it does. Now I understand more why that happens though, because guess who just lost the induction battle? My plan: Be induced if nothing is happening a week after the “due date.” My doctor’s plan: Be induced Thursday.

Skipping the details of my lost battle, basically here’s the super appreviated version of how I lost.

Went to the dr, we had already talked about inducing if I was a week late. Suddenly he wants to induce Thursday, what the heck? Turns out that since the last visit my cervix area went from “looks like nothing is happening” to it looking like any moment could be go time. That combined with my dr having major issues with the belief that you should never go over because the placenta starts to deteriorate (and considering the placenta issues we’ve had I suppose I don’t blame him in this instance), pretty much put me at the front of the line for induction candidacy.

I still resisted, but hubby and dad were both pro “listen to the guy that’s been delivering babies for over thirty years.” They had many arguments on the pro side, including, ‘How about avoiding coming in for a test on Friday that will cost you 1k, just so that you can wait to be induced on Tues.” OK, that’s pretty motivating…

My mom had a different tactic and pretty much just went through a small list of questions. “Has your cervix thinned out?… Are you dilated?… Is the baby in position?” The answers being yes, yes, and oh yeah, respectively. Then she informed me that with that taking into consideration she saw no reason to put it off as induction would be perfectly safe. It was pointed out to me that if I’m walking around like that, that this could be a stupid conversation as I could very well go into labor in the next few hours.

I have to say, I really thought my mom would back me up on this, but instead she was honestly the one that killed my spirit. If the lady that’s given birth six times isn’t with me, really, what do I have?

Some might wonder why I gave up so easily. It’s not like four against one in opinion has stopped me before, but when three of those four are the three people that I trust most in the world, well, it’s easy for me to say that maybe I’m a little emotional and everything will be just fine. So bring on the baby!

Being induced bright and early February 18th.