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Today has come and is nearly gone...
Ugh... Today's my EDD with this one. I'm really so sick and tired of being
pregnant. With my due date here right now and absolutely nothing, I'm not exactly thrilled haha Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to try and bring labor on?? I've tried everything I can think of... I've done the pineapple idea... I've done the castor oil (which has worked like a charm for me in the past)... I spent a good part of today going up and down the stairs to do laundry, carrying baskets of laundry up and down, up and down... I've had a "relaxing" bath - I even fell asleep for a bit in the bath with some nice scented candles and such... I've been using the Evening Primrose Oil for a couple weeks now, maybe... I've tried those pressure points that apparently can start labor, but not sure if I was getting the right spots or not... I've even tried the nipple stimulation and that's just made me sore and it was more of a pain than it was worth. My main concern, really, is that on Wednesday is my final OB appointment. I was already told at my last appointment on Tuesday that if she "doesn't see me sooner" she's going to be "talking C-section" on Wednesday and will plan a section by the end of the week. The end of next week will only bring me 6 days past my EDD, though. I also will NOT agree to a C-section. I just can't. Unless it's an actual medical emergency and absolutely CANNOT be avoided, I will not agree to it. I don't think at this point I can be *forced* into that, and considering 6 days over due isn't unusual... #1 was 2 days late, #2 was 7 days late, #3 was 4 days late (I used castor oil for this time) and #4 was 7 days early - but that time we had all spent the entire weekend very sick with that norovirus. With DD1 she had me scheduled for a C-section when I would have been only 8 days over (I was due on a Sunday, IIRC, when they don't schedule the OR so it had to be the next Monday) and with DD2 she was scheduling me for the OR at only 1 day over. I'm also not eligible for induction due to my first being an emergency C-section as he was a footling breech found that way at the last possible second. So... Is there anything else that I can try? Or keep trying? I still have some pineapple left, and some pineapple juice, but the thought of pineapple is starting to make me feel ill. Same with the castor oil... I have some left but even the thought of it is making me sick and it hasn't worked yet. Oh, and sex is out of the question... It has not worked at all in the past for me, and being a single mom now, I have NO desire to call my ex up or anything like that... And not interested in something random LOL IYKWIM haha So, since there's a lot of moms here, any ideas on things that worked for you, if you were in a similar situation?? |
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Today has come and is nearly gone...
All of mine were late in the days before they did inductions or
C-sections if the baby was late. In order they were 10 days, 13 days, 18 days and the last one was 6 days from the time they calculated and probably in reality 14 days [I knew exactly when I got pregnant with that one because we only had sex one time at it was at the end of my menses - before that he was out at sea and he went back right after that] With the 18 days one, my mom ragged on me until I got upset and cried, and that night I went. She said she did this on purpose to get me going. "Kat" wrote: Ugh... Today's my EDD with this one. I'm really so sick and tired of being pregnant. With my due date here right now and absolutely nothing, I'm not exactly thrilled haha Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to try and bring labor on?? I've tried everything I can think of... I've done the pineapple idea... I've done the castor oil (which has worked like a charm for me in the past)... I spent a good part of today going up and down the stairs to do laundry, carrying baskets of laundry up and down, up and down... I've had a "relaxing" bath - I even fell asleep for a bit in the bath with some nice scented candles and such... I've been using the Evening Primrose Oil for a couple weeks now, maybe... I've tried those pressure points that apparently can start labor, but not sure if I was getting the right spots or not... I've even tried the nipple stimulation and that's just made me sore and it was more of a pain than it was worth. My main concern, really, is that on Wednesday is my final OB appointment. I was already told at my last appointment on Tuesday that if she "doesn't see me sooner" she's going to be "talking C-section" on Wednesday and will plan a section by the end of the week. The end of next week will only bring me 6 days past my EDD, though. I also will NOT agree to a C-section. I just can't. Unless it's an actual medical emergency and absolutely CANNOT be avoided, I will not agree to it. I don't think at this point I can be *forced* into that, and considering 6 days over due isn't unusual... #1 was 2 days late, #2 was 7 days late, #3 was 4 days late (I used castor oil for this time) and #4 was 7 days early - but that time we had all spent the entire weekend very sick with that norovirus. With DD1 she had me scheduled for a C-section when I would have been only 8 days over (I was due on a Sunday, IIRC, when they don't schedule the OR so it had to be the next Monday) and with DD2 she was scheduling me for the OR at only 1 day over. I'm also not eligible for induction due to my first being an emergency C-section as he was a footling breech found that way at the last possible second. So... Is there anything else that I can try? Or keep trying? I still have some pineapple left, and some pineapple juice, but the thought of pineapple is starting to make me feel ill. Same with the castor oil... I have some left but even the thought of it is making me sick and it hasn't worked yet. Oh, and sex is out of the question... It has not worked at all in the past for me, and being a single mom now, I have NO desire to call my ex up or anything like that... And not interested in something random LOL IYKWIM haha So, since there's a lot of moms here, any ideas on things that worked for you, if you were in a similar situation?? |
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