Not Time Yet, Maybe Time Tomorrow
Apr. 15th, 2008 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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No, not yet. I have one more week and then it's Cervidil and Pitocin...I'll have hit 42 weeks, and I can respect that my care providers are just not comfortable past that point-for most people these days, 42 weeks is pretty generous. I'm trying to remain positive that something will happen-we thought it might be yesterday, but not yet. I seriously dread the feelings of failure that I'll have if I end up with a chemical induction and I seriously dread the c-section issue, the risk of which increases significantly with induction.
We're doing the things we're supposed to-sex, evening primrose oil, nipple stimulation, walking, etc. We're also now doing daily visits with the reflexologist, acupuncturist and chiropractor. No castor oil yet, but there is a herbalist who works with the acupuncturist, and he may have some ideas. My goal now is Thursday when the OB I like is back on call.
There are contractions, and sometimes consistent ones for an hour or two, and they've changed in feeling and intensity and where they come from but they don't stick around.
It'll happen eventually. No one is pregnant forever. But I'm getting to "concerned" now.
No, not yet. I have one more week and then it's Cervidil and Pitocin...I'll have hit 42 weeks, and I can respect that my care providers are just not comfortable past that point-for most people these days, 42 weeks is pretty generous. I'm trying to remain positive that something will happen-we thought it might be yesterday, but not yet. I seriously dread the feelings of failure that I'll have if I end up with a chemical induction and I seriously dread the c-section issue, the risk of which increases significantly with induction.
We're doing the things we're supposed to-sex, evening primrose oil, nipple stimulation, walking, etc. We're also now doing daily visits with the reflexologist, acupuncturist and chiropractor. No castor oil yet, but there is a herbalist who works with the acupuncturist, and he may have some ideas. My goal now is Thursday when the OB I like is back on call.
There are contractions, and sometimes consistent ones for an hour or two, and they've changed in feeling and intensity and where they come from but they don't stick around.
It'll happen eventually. No one is pregnant forever. But I'm getting to "concerned" now.
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Date: 2008-04-15 02:28 pm (UTC)One thing that helped me was reminding myself that prelabor does accomplish some of the work of labor - just slowly and incrementally. Every milimeter of dilation and percentage of effacement that happens now is dilation and effacement that doesn't have to happen during labor proper. I was 3.5cm by the time real labor started, and then I went from there to 10 in five hours. So I guess yay for prelabor, in that regard.
I have one more week and then it's Cervidil and Pitocin
I doubt you'll go for another week if your symptoms are like this, but if you do, remember that Cervedil and Pitocin aren't necessarily a package deal. (For example, I had Cervedil and then chose to let my midwife rupture my membranes when the Cervedil contractions trailed away 12 hours later - no Pitocin was ever needed.) Cervedil and Pitocin have hugely different protocols that come with them - with Cervedil you usually don't have to have an IV, stay in bed, have continual monitoring, have intensely painful contractions which might require an epidural, etc. So even if you do wind up having to do something to help labor along (and I doubt that you'll make it all the way to 42 weeks), it may not need to be the full-scale event.
(Just something to consider. For example, if your OB requires Pit at 42 weeks, you could suggest trying Cervedil at 41w6d, and giving it 24 hours to work.)