Babies coming 6/16-6/23

[tatersalad]

Who has an induction or c-section scheduled this week?

[tatersalad]

I got an induction scheduled for Wed 6/17. Would love for baby to come on his due date tomorrow but taking comfort in knowing that there is indeed an end in sight.

[sordidvolition]

C section scheduled for 6/23. Feels so weird to know the exact day baby will be here. And I've separated everything into before baby and after baby. Heh

[nicolec78]

Induction scheduled 6/16 at 4am!

[bookninja]

Induction scheduled for Wednesday the 17th. I don't really know what to expect. Anyone with previous induction experience willing to share? FTM here, didn't really expect an induction until the last 2 weeks when my blood pressure started rising... I'm trying not to be nervous and focus on having an outside baby soon!

[holliberry28]

Induction scheduled for Thursday, 6/18 at 9 am. I'm getting so scared all of a sudden and I was so calm beforehand. Going to my last appointment with my OB tomorrow I guess to check progress and induction options. I was only 1 cm last week :/

[nicolec78]

I've been bumped because of all the ladies in labor. Must be the weather. I have to wait for a phone call of when I can come in.

[Girlymama79]

Jun 15, 2015 18:01:34 GMT -5 nicolec78 said:

Induction scheduled 6/16 at 4am!

Me too!!!

Eta: just saw the update. I have to call at 3am to make sure they are ready for me. On one hand I hope they are. On the other I hope they tell me to wait a couple more hours so I can sleep.

[megeliz1]

Induction scheduled for 6/20 as of this morning.

[ladysif]

This post helps it seem a bit more real! I'm somehow still in denial. I will have a baby before the week is out, I'll be induced the 22nd if he doesn't show before then. I had a minor freak out tonight because I'm not sure if he flipped breech again - I swear I felt his head up top again and I'm incredibly (and admittedly foolishly) paranoid now. That or he has an incredible bubble butt.

bookninja definitely review with your doctor what your options are. With DS1 I only had to have a foley bulb for induction, no pitocin and no cervadil and it worked. They'll recommend what is best for you based on how dilated/effaced etc., but I echo @jemomma to research them all so you can at least ask about the alternatives and feel comfortable with it. GL!

[honeybunches101]

I go here! Due the 19th and I'll be induced the 21st if she's not here by then. I am excited to meet this baby, but terrified of labor and sort of in denial about it. Also really anxious about finding someone to watch DS when labor starts, even though we've had lots of friends offer, I am paranoid labor will be quick and everyone will be busy. Really just a huge ball of nerves now that I'm so close!

[veggiemo]

Good luck all the induction ladies! I just had mine at 41 weeks 2 days and it was very successful. Started with a cervical balloon (Foley Ball), then pitocin, then my water broke on its own. In a lot of ways it ended up being easier than my first labor which happened naturally at 39 weeks. I plan on posting a birth story, I'll try to get to it tomorrow!

[turtletyme]

C/S 6.17 at 9 am!

[Widget123]

bookninja it seems like, from reading others' stories, that many of the OBs like to do cervidil, cytotec, foley bulbs etc. until the mother us dilated to a certain point (or will allow the mother to skip this phase if she's already that far), prior to starting pitocin and breaking waters. However, for both of my inductions I did cervidil but was barely dilated from it (think fingertip, if that), but they still started pitocin and broke my waters immediately thereafter anyway, and I was still able to deliver vaginally. The differences of approach intrigue me a little bit, honestly.

[bendherova]

Bummer, I'd hoped I'd be joining you guys this week, but looks like probably not!!

No changes from my triage trip on sat-- loose 1cm, baby still high. The good news is I havent gained any weight since 6/2, and my BP is still in rock star land--- 102/66.

I go back on 6/23. (EDD is 6/21)

I guess it's time for sexy time and lemon labor cupcakes

[periwinkledaydreams]

I will find out later today whether or not I go here! 39 week appointment this afternoon and since my never ending (Read: hopefully ending as soon as this baby is born) migraine has been in full blown terror mode all week, we will be talking induction possibilities. Don't know if we'll do it this week or what, but it could be as soon as tomorrow night. It really is my call. Problem is I have been hoping, planning, preparing to go as intervention free delivery as possible and have managed to let go of my fears of delivery, but I am admittedly afraid of induction being the ruiner of all of that. That part of me wants to just hold out and wait let my body go into labor on its own, but the part of me with a 6 1/2 month migraine that will apparently according to MFM go away after delivery just wants to have an outside baby now.

[Flick]

Scheduled for induction Thursday 6/18! Already 4cm dialated 50% effaced and at -2 station.

[Flick]

@jemomma I was surprised too! Time to start walking a mile a day!

[noname83]

Good luck ladies! I hope to join you since my due date is in this week, but we shall see. I think my LO is quite comfy in my uterus and not planning on coming out just yet. I'm also worried about possible induction, but based on some very general conversations I've had with my MW, it would end up being closer to July 3 assuming all is well.

[holliberry28]

Just had my last OB appt. I'm between 1-2 cm dilated, 50 effaced and baby has dropped but she said my cervix is still too posterior. Wants to give the cytocec a try since she thinks it'll work faster than the cervidil, and reassess from
There.

She seemed against the foley bulb or skipping a cervical ripener. Any ladies have advice/experience w/cytotec to offer?

Does it seem silly to try and hope for a quick induction?

Edit: clarify induction for this thurs 8 am

[periwinkledaydreams]

I officially go here now. I'm scheduled to go in tomorrow night at 7PM to start the cervidil and then the process can really begin Thursday morning. I went in for my 39 week OB appointment this afternoon and was just so completely miserable. I was sitting in the waiting room and the receptionist turned off the lights and shut the curtains for me when the nurse came to get me she was like ohh noo, and then I was sitting in a pitch black exam room when my doctor came in. Thats when she knows its been a bad week. She started going over suggestions for what we'll try to get the migraine under control this week, order another dose pack of steroids call the neurologist etc etc and then she was like wait, you're already at the max dose of your medication, we've been down this road so many times, enough is enough. If you're ready, I'm ready. If you want to schedule, I think we should schedule. So we talked about my nerves and reasons why I would want to wait vs. reasons why we would go ahead, and decided together to go ahead. Overall I am nervous but relieved, excited and ready. Time for a few last minute things tomorrow, can't believe tonight is suddenly our last night sleeping in our house with an inside baby!

[Widget123]

Jun 16, 2015 10:09:32 GMT -5 Flick said:

Scheduled for induction Thursday 6/18! Already 4cm dialated 50% effaced and at -2 station.

Given your health issues I'm shocked they didn't induce you sooner, honestly.  But good luck nonetheless! 

[mmo2112]

Jun 16, 2015 17:03:00 GMT -5 periwinkledaydreams said:

I officially go here now. I'm scheduled to go in tomorrow night at 7PM to start the cervidil and then the process can really begin Thursday morning. I went in for my 39 week OB appointment this afternoon and was just so completely miserable. I was sitting in the waiting room and the receptionist turned off the lights and shut the curtains for me when the nurse came to get me she was like ohh noo, and then I was sitting in a pitch black exam room when my doctor came in. Thats when she knows its been a bad week. She started going over suggestions for what we'll try to get the migraine under control this week, order another dose pack of steroids call the neurologist etc etc and then she was like wait, you're already at the max dose of your medication, we've been down this road so many times, enough is enough. If you're ready, I'm ready. If you want to schedule, I think we should schedule. So we talked about my nerves and reasons why I would want to wait vs. reasons why we would go ahead, and decided together to go ahead. Overall I am nervous but relieved, excited and ready. Time for a few last minute things tomorrow, can't believe tonight is suddenly our last night sleeping in our house with an inside baby!

Hoping you get relief in the next 48 hours! As a fellow migraine sufferer, I can't imagine what this pregnancy has been like for you! (Mine went away mostly after first tri; I'm scared they'll come back with a vengeance with post partum hormone craziness, though.)

Anyway, good luck, lady! Will definitely be thinking of you!

[ladysif]

Good luck to all the ladies having babies today! Can't wait for your announcements.

Had my last appointment today. He's still head-down, whoohoo! Finally had a cervical check, good call on my part not doing them all along. For pete's sake she was practically up to her elbow trying to reach it. (okay, slight exaggeration there, but this baby is NOT low). I called it - 40% and 1 cm. Blah. I'm fully resigned to being induced on Monday but will walk my little heart out until then to try to get things going. Dr. normally wants to do pitocin with the foley bulb, but I talked her into letting me just do the foley bulb for the time I have to be on the antibiotics for GBS on Monday if there has been no progression. My thought is that will be enough to get me going like last time and maybe I can avoid the pitocin. Good times.

[holliberry28]

Good luck to everyone having inductions today!!

[txngrl31]

holliberry28, they gave me cytotec as the first part of my induction. My cervix was very posterior and after 12 hours of it, there was enough change to try the bulb ( which didnt do anything until the third try). My induction appears to have lasted the longest at 4 nights....the next morning, I had the baby. My cervix and body was not ready at all and I was adamant about having a vaginal birth. I also was put on magnesium because of mild pre-e ( the reason for induction at 37 weeks and 3 days).

[holliberry28]

Jun 17, 2015 16:52:40 GMT -5 txngrl31 said:

holliberry28, they gave me cytotec as the first part of my induction. My cervix was very posterior and after 12 hours of it, there was enough change to try the bulb ( which didnt do anything until the third try). My induction appears to have lasted the longest at 4 nights....the next morning, I had the baby. My cervix and body was not ready at all and I was adamant about having a vaginal birth. I also was put on magnesium because of mild pre-e ( the reason for induction at 37 weeks and 3 days).

@tnxgrl31, my doctor also told me my cervix is in a posterior position, but he's low, and I'm almost 2 cm.  She thinks the cytotec will work faster than cervidil so we'll see.  I'm sorry you had such a long induction process! Hope you and baby are feeling good!

[txngrl31]

Jun 17, 2015 18:13:23 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

Jun 17, 2015 16:52:40 GMT -5 txngrl31 said:

holliberry28, they gave me cytotec as the first part of my induction. My cervix was very posterior and after 12 hours of it, there was enough change to try the bulb ( which didnt do anything until the third try). My induction appears to have lasted the longest at 4 nights....the next morning, I had the baby. My cervix and body was not ready at all and I was adamant about having a vaginal birth. I also was put on magnesium because of mild pre-e ( the reason for induction at 37 weeks and 3 days).

@tnxgrl31, my doctor also told me my cervix is in a posterior position, but he's low, and I'm almost 2 cm.  She thinks the cytotec will work faster than cervidil so we'll see.  I'm sorry you had such a long induction process! Hope you and baby are feeling good!

You are in a much better situation than I was! I was a finger tip and baby was high. Hope everything goes smoothly and swiftly girl! I can't wait to see your birth announcement. 

[Flick]

holliberry28 you and me are the only ladies being induced today from what I saw! Good luck and I hope everything goes smoothly! (:

[holliberry28]

Jun 18, 2015 4:37:55 GMT -5 Flick said:

holliberry28 you and me are the only ladies being induced today from what I saw! Good luck and I hope everything goes smoothly! (:

Thanks!! Same to you Flick!