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August 2014 Moms
phaarealwed
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Elective induction question
phaarealwed
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So I just got a call from the hospital where I will be delivering and they asked me to consider participating in a new study where you get induced at 39 weeks just to monitor pros/cons of inducing a week before due date. I told them I was not sure I wanted to do that specially without enough information about risks. Anyone else heard of this or would be ok with doing that?
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Re: Elective induction question
After having been induced for my first, I would personally spit directly in the face of someone who suggested this to me. My entire birth plan this time around is focused on avoiding an induction at all costs.
I was induced at 40+1 with my first, for "low fluids", which I now know isn't really a credible medical reason for induction. My OB tried to get me in at 39 weeks for slightly elevated bp (despite my multiple 24 hour urine catches being normal, bloodwork normal, bp being completely normal when monitoring daily at home), and somehow I was able to stand up for myself still at that point and refuse.
Anyways, my induction SUCKED. I went in favorable (2cm dilated, my son was very low and engaged, and 50/60% effaced), had a very fast labor, they started by breaking my water and then started Pitocin, my son was born less than 3 hours later. Being stuck in bed was HELL. I ended up with a vaccum assisted delivery and an episiotomy, and recovery was horrible. I'm thankful I didn't end up in a csection, but honestly think I just barely avoided that, and had I been induced at 39 weeks it very well could have happened.
Your odds of unnecessary interventions, including csection, are much higher if you are induced as a first time mom, and without a true medical reason to do so, ABSOLUTELY NO WAY IN HELL would I volunteer to, even for the good of "science". Which BTW I greatly question the hospitals motives for doing that, super weird.
Baby Boy due October 2017
I started labor naturally with my first and it completely stalled out when I hit 5cm. I didn't have a single contraction for over two hours, even with breaking my water. So basically they induced my first. She was born 39w6d. My labor and delivery with her were hellish, but she was completely fine.
I was also induced for medical reasons with my second, at 40w4d. I would GLADLY take my second delivery over my first. My second was easy. It was relaxed, it was controlled, it was calm and textbook. My first was absolute chaos from start to finish.
I would have to say that-- providing there were no medical reasons not to give birth at 39 weeks, and I stress that point a bajillion times-- I honestly would do it. However, it would largely depend on my OB's opinions, and on biophysical and NST data. By 39 weeks, baby is considered full term. All they are doing in those last few days is packing on weight. Not that its a bad thing. But I also feel that no TRUE scientist or doctor would ever allow a patient to participate in this sort of study if there were any medical indicating it might be dangerous.
BFP 12.20.13 | EDD 8.27.14 | Sheppard was borth 9.5.14
Zoe Nicole: 8/21/14
Due again: 1/17/18