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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
greengirl0909
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Induced against your will?
greengirl0909
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My sister was is due next week and hoping to go into labor naturally. Her doctor told her several weeks ago she would like to induce to avoid a Christmas delivery because she didn't want to work on Christmas.
At her 37 week appointment doctor said, this baby is big, we should schedule induction. My sister asked for a sono, which gauged baby at 6 lbs.
This week when she went in her blood pressure was up a little. Doctor said, let's induce, you have high blood pressure. My sister asked them to check again, it was back in the normal range. Doctor sent her for a non-stress test, all came out well.
She has called in every day with her BP, all normal, but doctor still said she felt like induction was necessary Monday. Does anyone have any thoughts or experiences to share?
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Re: Induced against your will?
She should just say no. If worse comes to worse the on call doctor will deliver her baby.
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One would hope a doctor would do what is medically correct/needed for their patient and not be just making that decision due to not wanting to "work" on Christmas.
So in my opinion if the doctor says you should induce you should induce.
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First paragraph = red flag
Second paragraph = doctor trying to find an excuse to scare the sh!t ot of your sister. And, for the record, a "big baby" is not a good reason to induce or to schedule a c-section.
Her doctor is being lazy and selfish. Your sister is one patient. Even if she doesn't go into labor on Christmas, some other woman will.
If everything is normal, then let her go into labor NORMALLY.
I have had similar experiences. Both my babies are December babies - both within 12 days of Christmas. With DD my OB was constantly bringing up scheduling my c-section (starting in my early 2nd trimester). I asked why I needed a c-section because I wanted a natural birth she told me it was because I was high risk. That was the first time I had ever been told I was high risk so I asked her why I classified as high risk. She tried to skirt the question, but it turned out "it was a mistake in the records." Guess what! The next appointment I had "high BP" = high risk. My BP was never high again after that, but I was thereafter classified as pre-eclamptic. I ended up getting the natural birth I wanted just because DD decided to arrive at 35 weeks.
I ended up changing OBs with DS and even the new OB brought up inducing so that I would not have to be in the hospital over Christmas. When I told her that did not bother me, she did not push it after that point but she did make a few comments about hoping baby would hurry. Bottom line - they cannot force you to do anything you don't want! Make sure you stand up for yourself and you can always get a second opinion if you don't think they are right. I wish I would have gotten a second opinion or switched OBs completely when I was pregnant with DD because I am almost certain I did not have pre-e.
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Nope. My friend's sister was due two weeks after me, but her doc was okay with inducing her at 38 weeks because he was going to be on vacation, and she and her mother preferred being induced because they only wanted this doc delivering her baby, not one of the others in the practice. She went into natural labor two weeks before her scheduled induction.
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Wow that's crazy!!! Our hospital has a strict policy on who and when someone can be induced.
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I would be very wary of this doc. If the tests say she's fine then I wouldn't agree to an induction just because the doc was pushing it. But FWIW, I was scheduled for a c-section at 28 weeks (not to have the section then but just that it was put on the books) because G was breech and "big." I thought it was way too early to be talking c-sections and lo and behold, she flipped and her growth leveled off and she was born naturally at 39 weeks. Sometimes doctors get overly excited to medically intervene.
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This. I was induced at 38 weeks for medical reasons (pre-e and out of control blood pressure) and I had not made any progression on my own naturally. Needless to say I had to have a c/s. Had I been in the situation of the OP's sister my decision would be to have the on-call doctor deliver the baby and tell the original OB to bugger off.
She showed her hand when she said she didn't want to work on Christmas, so now everything is suspect anyway. Is there another doctor in the practice?
That is ridiculous. Say no, and she can deal with the on call doctor.