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FlMarriedCpl
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Wife getting Induced
FlMarriedCpl
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Is getting an induction that bad vs just letting it happen. My wifes dr today said that he wants to induce her in a couple days or 3 to 4 days. We get to pic. She'll be over her due date in a day.
We are obviously going to hope something happens before then but it seems everyone is very for or against induction.
Any positive stories out there?
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Re: Wife getting Induced
My OB agreed to let me "ride it out" 1.5 to even 2 weeks past my due date, pending that everything looked ok/normal with the baby. He didn't even want to talk about an induction at my 39 week appt yesterday.
I agree with PP, what's the reason? If it is purely out of convenience for either you all or your OB, I'm not sure that's the route I would go down. First timers usually go past their due dates anyways...
We are not against induction when there is a medical reason. But simply going past your due date is not a good reason. As pp said it can lead to a landslide of interventions, when baby and mama are not ready. Not to mention most women report inductions to be more painful.
Here is some good information including question you can ask your wife's doctor:
https://www.americanpregnancy.org/labornbirth/inducinglabor.html
I guess I didn't fully answer your question. I used to nanny for a woman who requested an induction to guarantee she would get the doctor she liked. Other than an epi, she did not have any other interventions, and had a healthy baby at the end. She will swear up and down that is the way to go.
Are there other stories like hers? Sure, but there are also plenty of stories of deliveries that end with not so favorable outcomes, which can easily be traced back to unnecessary inductions.
I would say that unnecessary inductions are bad (those done for convenience when there are no other factors than timing involved) but that some inductions are necessary, for instance when there are umbilical cord or placental issues, clotting factors, getting far past the due date, etc. Just a few days with no other factors would have me raising my brows.
My daughter's birth was induced. I was 40, first baby, clotting factors in my blood and autoimmune issues. By my due date, I had not descended, had not even had Braxton Hix contractions let alone real ones, nothing. By a week after my due date, though baby was still doing very well, I had only had one or two random contractions, and my perinatologist strongly suggested an induction, as did my own family doctor even though NEITHER of them were going to be involved in the delivery, so it certainly wasn't for their convenience.
Day 1 I went in in the evening and they started me on Cytotec and then after 4 hours, on Cervidil. I had some minor contractions, but never got into active labor, and by morning my contractions had ceased.
Day 2, in the afternoon they broke my water. Major contractions very regular started and went on throughout the night... until I fell asleep.
Day 3, By morning they had petered out to 1 every 20-30 minutes when they had been as frequent as every 4 minutes the night before. At 9 a.m. they started me on a very very low dose of pitocin, which ramped up throughout the day and into the afternoon. At about 3:30 they put me in a warm tub and I went into transition. 4:30 they took me back out of the tub (how, I no longer remember) and by 4:45 I had dilated to 10 and was told to start pushing. My baby was born at 5:11 p.m. No epidural, no painkillers, only very slight tearing (one stitch).
As my doctor told me when she visited me after they broke my water, induction does mean a higher chance of other interventions, but it does not mean that there WILL be other interventions. I will wish for you to magically go into natural labor in the next few hours, but if not, go in with the belief and the will that even if induced, things can still go well.
Thanks for the replies.
Yea what happened was my wife, who's due date is tomorrow, hasn't effaced at all in the past month. The Dr. checked her again yesterday and said she still hasn't changed. The only thing that finally changed is her cervix has finally softened, which he said is good.
But his nurse told my wife that the Dr. doesn't usually like to let his patients go past the 41 week mark. Because of that, he said he wanted to set up an induction time for this week.
Of course we would love for her to come on her own but we also don't want to wait too long because we do know that the longer she goes, things can happen; like the baby passing her first stool in the uterus instead of when she's out.
We set an induction time only two days before her 41 week. But we are keeping our fingers crossed it happens before then.
I totally hear you on this. Believe me, we aren't just all gun hoe on this but at the same time we have no reason to believe the Dr is doing this because he wants to go play golf. Actually, he won't even be there the time we set up the schedule so it doesn't even affect him.
My wife is at her due date now. Well a couple hours from it. We've both read so many things about people for and people against induction. We talked to a ton of people who have had it done. Some were totally fine with it and some told us to wait as long as we could. I know its all a matter of personal preferance.
We are actually meeting with the Dr. one last time on Tuesday. I'm going this time and going to be asking up a storm about this stuff. I've read alot from Mom's who were totally against induction and started to do things like sex, spicy foods and for some reason the most popular one, drinking castor oil. But I think all that is so funny because basically all they are doing is trying to Induce themselves...speed things up..make things happen...which is what an induction is as well.
There really is just no 'right' answer on this. There are those who have no problem with it..those religious about not getting induced..those who use medical science to say why going too long is not good..and those who do the same thing to say why it doesn't make a difference if you go 43 weeks. My wife is 35..it's her first child and because of her age she's automatically put in the 'risk' category. We had a hard time getting pregnant and got lucky with an IUI working the first time.
Again i'm going to be asking the Dr so much but the fact that she isn't progressing at all...eh i dont' know...you women and your bodies...so perplexing
I don't really have a lot of information to share with you but just wanted to say I was 32 with my first and 34 with my second, so I do know a little of what it's like to be a bit older having a first baby and having Drs say, "well you are older so..."
DD1 I was 40 wks 6 days. Spontaneous labour and an easy natural birth.
DD2 40 wks 5 days (clearly my body has an opinion on how long my babies should cook for). Spontaneous easy and natural labour. BUT I went to the hospital when I was in early labour because contractions were 2minutes apart. My MW suggested I got home because I was only 3 cm dilated and my cervix was very high and firm. 2 hrs later I had my baby on my bathroom floor.
My point is that things can change very quickly, and even experienced medical professionals (my MW had 20 yrs experienced and was mortified I had my baby at home, unassisted.) don't always know what will happen.
Good luck with your decision, and best wishes with your wee one!!!
Elizabeth 5yrs old Jane 3yrs old