If you are having a c/s due to breech position, how much "progress" will your OB allow?

jenna1008

I went into L&D for contractions 2 min apart on Sunday night, but I was 0cm and 0% effaced.  I have been contracting, some very painfully, all week long, and I lost my MP.  I HATE false alarms, but if I contract badly enough to go back to L&D and labor halts I am wondering if/how my dilation/effacement will affect his decision to discharge me vs perform my c/s.  (I know this is a long-shot, but it seems like every night I awake at 4am having KILLER contractions.  Since I can obviously no longer get any sleep, I would consider going to L&D without waiting to feel out if this is real labor or false labor again.)  I am term, and my c/s is scheduled two weeks away.

(I do feel quite sure that I'm at least 50% effaced and 1cm dilated by now.  I mean, you don't lose your MP until your cervix at least BEGINS to open, right?  With my son I didn't lose it until I was about 3cm.)

LooseyGoosey

I don't how much progress he will allow, but my c/s will be scheduled for the 25th or 26th and I was 1 cm and 80% at my appt yesterday.  I have been having some minor contractions, but nothing major at all.  I hope that things calm down for you soon! 

I still haven't decided if I want to try an ECV again or not, but either way I will be going in on one of those days to have a baby.  Good luck to you!

Jen&Peter

This is a good question actually. I will have my 3rd (and last) scheduled c-section (not due to breech) on 8/15 (31 more days....yahoooo!). My OB has said if I have any contractions to go straight to the hospital. That is as far as our conversation has gotten. I will have to ask her on Monday if they would do the c-section then or give me something to stop the contractions.

My guess would be if you are term and having serious contractions (basically in labor) that they would do the c-section then. I would doubt they would risk you getting close to actually delivering a breech baby. I would not be afraid to go to the hospital and risk them saying it is false labor. You are so close and contracting. I would go to the hospital if it were me. IMO, better you go and be sent home then not going and something happen.

I have never felt a contraction in any of my 3 pregnancies. DS1 was scheduled at 39w 2d, DS2 at 39w and DS3 will be 39w. If I felt a contraction, I think I would freak out!!!! I would be at the hospital so fast.....

J&MsMom

They will give you a c/s. I went into labor at 36 weeks. I only dilated to 1 cm but they didn't want to risknit going further. This week my doctor said they wouldn't stop labor after 35 weeks. Yikes. When in doubt, go.

amyegunnip

My OB told me that if I truly go into labor and/or my membranes rupture then he will section me earlier than my set date of 8/8