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Decided to Try EPO Internally...

So, on Saturday I decided to go from just 1,000 mg orally to 1,000 mg orally and 500 mg internally.  I was almost 39 weeks and just decided to see how it made me feel.  It didn't notice any extra cramping or weird side effects from it Saturday night so I tried again Sunday night.

Well... 2AM Monday morning my water broke and my son was born 5 hours later, completely natural birth!  I have no idea if the EPO had anything to do with it in reality but man the timing seems to be quite the coincidence!  I'll post my whole birth story later but we'll just say I'm happy I decided not to try EPO until 37 weeks and not try it internally until 38.5 weeks! 

B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17


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Re: Decided to Try EPO Internally...

  • Congrats!  Five hours is a short labor so I hope your doula was able to make it there in time!  I am looking forward to reading your birth story!
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  • imageaylafsu88:
    Congrats!  Five hours is a short labor so I hope your doula was able to make it there in time!  I am looking forward to reading your birth story!

    Actually, my child decided to be a little butt and picked one of the two days that both my doula and my doctor were on vacation.  Seriously, this whole month to pick from and he picked one of those two days.  *sigh*  Luckily my Mom is a pretty awesome birth partner (H is a bit of another story but it's understandable considering how fast everything happened and how it was nothing like what we'd been preparing for) and the doctor didn't even get there until I was about to start pushing.  And by the time he showed up and really could have cared less who he was!

    B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17


    I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.

  • Great job on such an efficient birth! I love those. 

    It might have been just the thing to push you over into labor. That's how I view any natural method, even sex. Semen does the same thing as EPO, and there's no reason not to introduce semen before you're due - it won't do anything if you're not ready. But, if your body is just about ready, that or EPO or other aids might be just the thing to get things going. I'm glad you had a great birth and hope you're enjoying your new son!

  • So EPO vaginally... do you stick it in there before bed so it doesn't fall out or does it stay? I've never inserted something like that so I am just curious. I am planning to start it orally next week at 37 weeks and then internally around 38 weeks.

     

  • imageAACaHa13:
    So EPO vaginally... do you stick it in there before bed so it doesn't fall out or does it stay? I've never inserted something like that so I am just curious. I am planning to start it orally next week at 37 weeks and then internally around 38 weeks.

    Yeah. Wash your hands, stick it up as far as it'll go, then get in bed. I prefer to wear a pantyliner since the capsule will dissolve and you could have some leakage when getting up to go to the bathroom during the night. It's gone by morning. 

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    imageAACaHa13:
    So EPO vaginally... do you stick it in there before bed so it doesn't fall out or does it stay? I've never inserted something like that so I am just curious. I am planning to start it orally next week at 37 weeks and then internally around 38 weeks.

    Yeah. Wash your hands, stick it up as far as it'll go, then get in bed. I prefer to wear a pantyliner since the capsule will dissolve and you could have some leakage when getting up to go to the bathroom during the night. It's gone by morning. 

    Yup!  Make sure to REALLY stick it up there.  I guess unless it gets close to your cervix it's not going to do much.  If you can't reach ask for help.  :P  And the funny thing is I was warned that it leaks out and can be kind of messy so when I first rolled over in bed and felt that little trickle coming out I thought it was the EPO leaking out.  It wasn't until a WHOLE lot more than one pill worth of EPO came out that I realized what was happening!

    B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17


    I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.

  • congrats thats great timing!

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    Married to my best friend 12/24/2012
    Beautiful baby girl arrived 8/15/2013
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