An LJ friend of mine just had a baby at 42 weeks 2 weeks ago and her natural birth ended up being a c-section due to pre-eclampsia. HOWEVER, the baby was almost 11 lbs and honestly judging by the size of him due to "cooking" an extra couple of weeks, I doubt she would have been able to pass him through the birth canal naturally like she wanted to.
I'm not telling you what to do or anything, I'm just saying that the longer she's in there, the bigger she's going to get and the harder it's going to be on YOU when the time comes to get her out.
I know you meant well by posting this comment, but imagine how truly scary it comes across to someone who's approaching these particular number of weeks in her pregnancy. It'd be like telling everyone you know that has a dentist appointment that you have a friend who went in for a routine exam and ended up with a mouthful of root canals. Unneeded stress! Every pregnancy is unique, and your LJ friend's experience is unique to her.
Facts as they lay though, post-term babies don't guarantee huge babies either, and for that matter, huge babies don't guarantee c-sections. I know a multitude of vaginally-birthed 10+ pounders.
I think my comment was also misunderstood. My friend had pre-eclampsia which contributed heavily to her situation and I suppose I should have said that she was trying to do a home birth VBAC.
Or maybe I just shouldn't have said anything. That seems to be the popular opinion.
It should also be noted that I left out of the story most of the things that would "scare" anyone and my whole post was about what *I* would do in the same situation due to what my friend experienced.
Pre-e and going for a VBAC are two HUGE factors that make a perfectly normal first birth worlds apart from your friends. Don't let other women's births affect your own! Each pregnancy is unique, and the far majority are normal--nothing that needs to be fixed :)
oh haha I'm way done birthin' babies, but I totally get what you're saying.
The only reason I even said anything is because my friend did all the things one4theroad is doing right now to induce labour naturally, literally the exact same things (except my friend DID do the castor oil), but things didn't go as planned and they would have been better off with trying the induction sooner rather than waiting for things to happen naturally...and then have things go wrong (which I'm NOT NOT NOT saying will happen in this case).
I'll spare the rest of what I want to say for fear of scaring one4theroad, but I have further reason based on what happened to my friend to feel that "hospital induction" should have happened before "natural induction" did. By the same token, it was impossible for them to know that things would go the way they did so I'm also totally speaking in hindsight terms.
I wish NOTHING but the easiest delivery for one4theroad and I believe it will be one since (I don't think?) she's high risk for anything. Mostly the only real advice I can legitimately
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I'm not telling you what to do or anything, I'm just saying that the longer she's in there, the bigger she's going to get and the harder it's going to be on YOU when the time comes to get her out.
At 42 weeks, I'd personally go for the induction.
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Facts as they lay though, post-term babies don't guarantee huge babies either, and for that matter, huge babies don't guarantee c-sections. I know a multitude of vaginally-birthed 10+ pounders.
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Or maybe I just shouldn't have said anything. That seems to be the popular opinion.
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The only reason I even said anything is because my friend did all the things one4theroad is doing right now to induce labour naturally, literally the exact same things (except my friend DID do the castor oil), but things didn't go as planned and they would have been better off with trying the induction sooner rather than waiting for things to happen naturally...and then have things go wrong (which I'm NOT NOT NOT saying will happen in this case).
I'll spare the rest of what I want to say for fear of scaring one4theroad, but I have further reason based on what happened to my friend to feel that "hospital induction" should have happened before "natural induction" did. By the same token, it was impossible for them to know that things would go the way they did so I'm also totally speaking in hindsight terms.
I wish NOTHING but the easiest delivery for one4theroad and I believe it will be one since (I don't think?) she's high risk for anything. Mostly the only real advice I can legitimately ( ... )
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