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WHY I'm so impatient post due date

see8esee8e member
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I'm 40w5d and excitedly awaiting the moment when our Baby kicks off labor! That being said, I also feel like since the moment I woke up on my due date (12/29), I've been watching the clock... Of course, I'm beyond excited to meet my son/daughter, but there is also this anxiety looming during this waiting period that has nothing to do with the excitement:
  • Factor 1: Insurance 
    • I'm blessed to have a job and be insured, but found out in November that my employer wouldn't be offering the high premium/zero deductible plan in 2015 that I had paid into all 2014. That meant that if Baby decided to be born on 1/1/15 at 12:00am instead of 12/31/14 at 11:59pm or earlier, the birth would instantly be thousands more out of pocket for my husband and I....which we now know it WILL be, rats!
  • Factor 2: Maternity Leave
    • or lack thereof! Again, I'm blessed with a job that offers leave with at least some pay (60%), but being the breadwinner in our family and knowing how this impacts our monthly bottom-line has caused this struggle between wanting to spend max time with my newborn and feeling like I need to get the dough rolling again by returning sooner than later.
    • The time-table I also discussed with my boss is now at least a week skewed, and I don't want to feel pressured to come back early...
  • Factor 3: Medical Induction 
    • We really do not want to be medically induced, but my doctor doesn't like to let his patients go past 41w. We're trying all the natural "gentle nudges" that we can to get labor rolling, but am nervous that we may need to invoke our right to decline induction...
Kind of a meandering rant this AM as I sip my red raspberry leaf tea, but I wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing something similar? I don't want to rush the arrival of the baby but feel pressure to do so from sources I never expected.
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  • mandyreadsmandyreads member
    I understand your insurance concern...same boat with H's insurance. But I am not due until the 16th...so I just have to wait. I just hate that it doesn't roll over. Hang in there.
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  • NicoleWINicoleWI member
    It's hard to wait! My water broke with DS at 40w6d, just when I had given up on anything happening that day. Good luck.

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  • BLH2014BLH2014 member

    I am in a very similar situation.  I was due 12/28, but I kinda figured all along that I might go past that (my mom gestated her babies forever).  We are dealing with similar insurance and medical induction situations, except my midwives don't talk induction until 42 weeks so I have a little more time there, but I am beginning to feel that pressure. 

    I'm normally not a very patient person, so I'm actually pretty surprised at the LACK of clock watching I've done so far.  I've stayed pretty calm somehow, I'm guessing because I've told myself all along to expect to go closer to 42 weeks.  I haven't really started pulling out all the stops in terms of natural induction stuff.  I do take EPO and drink RRL, but those aren't really induction methods, IMO, just more labor prep tools.  We have sex when we want to and I've been walking on the treadmill some (weather is too crappy here to walk outside), but that's about it.

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  • amedberyamedbery member
    I understand completely. I'm 40w 3d. Since I have GD, my OB usually induces at 39 weeks but I have kept my numbers down and dodged that bullet. But I don't think they want me to go much past 41 weeks. I have made no progress to speak of. I am violently opposed to a csection so I want to avoid an induction that isn't likely to be successful. I've tried every safe self-induction method and nothing has worked. Time seems to have just stopped. But I know baby will likely be here in a week, one way or another, so I'm trying to make the best of it. Hang in there, mama - you aren't alone!
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