I'm surprised about some posts I'm seeing on other boards...

LiluBee

about inductions and c-sections.  I'm in no way singling out anyone but I'm just surprised that with the c-section rate so high, doctors are suggesting to people before 40 weeks that their progress isn't good enough.  The suggestion seems to be without the correct amount of progress at their due date, an induction might not even work and a c-section would be the best way to go in the long run.  

Am I silly that hearing this kind of thing frustrates me?  Just knowing what I know NOW after what I consider a lot of research on VBACs, it just seems completely backwards.  Why aren't doctors saying things like, you aren't dilated but at 39 weeks that doesn't mean a thing.  The average is something like 41 weeks a first time mom gives birth....and let's not forget that 42nd week!   Why get a pregnant mom all concerned?

AnneShirleyBlythe

I completely agree. 

 

 

I will never understand the obsession with due dates.  

Mrs. Braxton

at my 39 week appt my ob told me that dd was going to be "big" so we needed to schedule a csection or an induction and he would recommend an induction since i didnt have much progress. i talked him in to the induction but it still ended in a csection and i think part of the reason for that is that he already had made up his mind that she was going to be "too big" and i wouldnt be able to deliver vaginally. its absolutely rediculous and after doing my research i feel like a complete idiot for even agreeing to an induction. why is it that obs get so pushy as you near the dreaded due date? its all just so unecessary.

MAprincess

People just blindly believe doctors assuming they know more.  And technically, they should.  But I know A LOT of doctors (who are friends, relatives, etc) and I know first hand that some doctors are just not bright people (or lack common sense).  They are not all created equally.  This is why you need to research and get second opinions.  If all doctors thought the same exact thing, second opinions wouldn't exist! 

ryemo

Doctors are great a lot of the time, but I hate that many OBs act like they know what should be going on with a woman's body better than her body does.

luvbeingmom

you know, i've always had a random thought about this too about how maybe docs are messing with human evolution by pushing the inductions so early.

maybe there's a reason why the average pregnancy last 41 weeks that no one knows yet. maybe the baby NEEDS to be in there as long as they're in there.

docs may know how big a baby is, but they truly have no idea how the mother can tolerate it... 

RandiDeeAnn

I've got a story to top you all! A friend of mine isn't even far enough along yet to know what she is having and her MW told her that she probably couldn't go naturally like she wants because she is so small. And that she might need a c/s. What the heck? Really are you freaking serious?

I know that we got our "little tax write-off" because of a screwed up induction turned c/s, but I now don't understand why I wasn't just on hospital bed rest for toxemia. It wasn't that bad. They could have let me go a few more weeks. I was not even a fingertip dialated and they did the ripener and pitocin. FAIL before it even started!

iris427

Yeah those posts really frustrate me.  It's one thing if a woman wants a c/s or is having one that is truly necessary.  But I see doctors on TB pushing women into questionable c/s all the time.  Maybe we don't know the full story, I don't know.  But I think the general obstetrical culture in the US has become very cavalier about cutting people open, as if the risks of cesarean aren't real.  And I'm pretty sick of hearing it be justified by "too many lawsuits" or "women are too old and fat now."

wendylaine

I firmly believe that many doctors take advantage of women at their weakest. When my doctor with DD said we could induce at 39 weeks I was all for it because I was un educated and ready to have my baby. Then when he told me after 18 hours of labor that we needed to do a c-section I cried but went ahead with it because I was tired and scared. I think doula are almost a requirement to help even your odds against the doctors.