I went to the doctor yesterday for my full term checkup. I am still 3cm, although he said I'm a bigger 3cm now...he could stretch me to 4cm if he really tried (ouch!!). I gained 2 lbs, the baby's heart rate was perfect, and my blood pressure was great.
Now to the icky part - obviously the doc wants to break my water to induce and I would like to avoid that. Well, he called the hospital to try and schedule me to have my water broken on Saturday but they told him no. So he schedules me for Friday at 6am. So I did what any woman in my situation would do - I cried. Ok, I didn't sob but I definitely had tears in my eyes and asked him why we had to do it so soon and couldn't it please wait until next week? So he tells me that the doctor I really want to deliver Baby M (from here on out known as Dr. Niceguy) is on call Monday so they can schedule me for then. I go into his office with him and he calls the hospital - they can't do Monday because they already have 3 inductions scheduled. Dr. Niceguy happens to walk in the office in the middle of the conversation and asks me why I don't want to do Saturday. I tell him that Saturday would be ok but the hospital wasn't allowing any inductions that day. So he tells me to come in on Saturday at 9am if I haven't gone into labor yet. But I have to lie - haha! I have to tell the hospital that I had been having contractions and major back pains and I think I'm in labor. When they hook me up to the monitors and find that I'm not in labor they will ask Dr. Niceguy what they should do. He's going to tell them to admit me and break my water since I'm due anyway.
The bad news is that I didn't get the whole weekend like I asked for. The good news is that they are at least giving me a couple of days to get labor started naturally. And the great news is that if I do wind up being induced, Dr. Niceguy is the one on call. Basically, I'm ok with going into labor any time tonight into Saturday morning. I know Dr Niceguy is on call tomorrow morning (so probably overnight as well) and I know MY doctor is on call tomorrow afternoon. And obviously Dr. Niceguy is on call Saturday since he'll be the one inducing me. Because they didn't tell me any options for today, I am going to assume that Dr. Csectionlady is on duty today so let's all hope I DON'T go into labor today!!
So that's it. One way or the other, M&M will be holding their baby girl by the end of the weekend <3
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