42 week pregnancy - advice!

across

good luck jo! just remember how good that slice of toast and cup of tea will taste at the end of it all!! :j

Jo_R_2

squibbs25 - I regularly get OH to do foot rubs but he's a bit casual about it... I have read about reflexology being able to stimulate labour, it's something I'm interested in anyway, so I might ask him to get a bit more handy about it!

savvy_sue - My midwife is great but of the opinion that 41 weeks means into hospital for induction. She has supported me nevertheless, and explained that whatever I choose to do, I will be supported anyway, their opinions don't come into it. Her particular concern is with the placenta deteriorating. However, I went for a scan yesterday and the placenta is fine so that's not an issue right now.

Now 42+1, didn't expect to get this far! It's all uncharted territory for me...

gingin_2

Good Luck Jo_R, have you looked at accupuncture?

JULIE

Hi, I was dead set on home birth with my 3rd child. We tried 8 sweeps, clary sage baths,curry,pineapple,sex,reflexology...everything to get it started
I ended up going in for induction on 15th day over due date as got fed up with all the traipsing into hospital for monitoring of baby etc. (We don't live that close)

I was very negative and questioning when I went in and very anti hospital but it turned out that it was the best thing I did, it was a lovely labour and birth, and not at all disappointed not to get the home birth i'd wanted.

We've now got our 4th on the way and am more than happy to go into hosp if necessary.

Would just like to add that to prefer a c section over induction is crazy...as mentioned before...recovery time is an awful lot longer not to mention all the other implications of having one...lifting, driving etc

Good luck

rainbowkanga

Hi My babies always take longer to cook so to speak. I was just like Julie above - fourth baby and tried absolutely everything to get things going - it was not to be - and ended up being induced.

I was very much against induction as my third baby was stillborn and had to be induced, so it held very bad memories for me.

However like Julie it was fine, absolutely no different to my other live labours. In the end my lo was the wrong way round and mw said she thought labour would have been very unlikely to happen spontaneously so I was veyr glad to have been induced.

Came home 6 hours later and it really was not an issue in the end.

Hope all goes well.

inkie

I remember having a mum booked with me for her home delivery - she went over due considerably, and didn't want to be induced, and had 'tried' everything to get labour started. However, the cons. set a date for induction, and she had resigned herself to going in - I got a call from her in the night before she was due to go in to say that she was in spontanous labour and we have a lovely home birth that night. Seems that the threat of the induction sparked things off. Hope all goes well!

Jo_R_2

JULIE wrote:

Would just like to add that to prefer a c section over induction is crazy...as mentioned before...recovery time is an awful lot longer not to mention all the other implications of having one...lifting, driving etc

Agree totally about implications of c/s - however the implications of induction are not nice either, obviously different but still put me off. I know for starters that baby is LOP so to induce knowing baby is in such a bad position is asking for trouble! Also as mentioned earlier on, one of the prostaglandin gels used for induction contains pig semen - ick! The other is the same one that has been used in abortions which puts me off... And as for synthetic oxytocin, it is known to put baby's heartbeat at risk amongst other complications. Of course if the cervical conditions are favourable then that helps and there's nothing to say that it WON'T work, just that it's not the miracle cure-all that doctors would have you believe and it makes me very cynical that they would recommend induction knowing baby's position, that I had back labour last time and not knowing what's going on in there as I haven't had a VE yet...

Anyway...! Been drinking raspberry leaf tea, got some clary sage oil to try and foot rubs aplenty if I can get OH to agree! And other things on the list!

Jay-Jay_4

Are you still here?????????????


:rotfl:


I assume that you're very clued up on posterior presentations so I won't go on and on about positioning. Have you got a ball and spent some time on your hands and knees to encourange your (rather stubborn ) baby into a better position? I bet you already have.... I should save my fingers

squibbs25

using the foot spa help stimulte my dd to turn, if that helps anyone!

squibbs25

oops.........stimulate (i mean! lol)