Thursday, June 24, 2010

Overdue and Stressed

This is what I get for posting previously about not being ready 6 weeks prior to EDD.

Now I'm a week past due date and no signs of imminent labour!! I'm going nuts here!!

I'd planned a natural unmedicated birth but of course my OB doesn't give a damn about that, she just wants to induce me. When I refused the induction for last night, she insisted I do bio-physical profile (BPP) and Non Stress Test (NST) to check that the baby is ok. Mind you, there was no reason or indication that the baby was anything other than healthy. So off we go to the hospital, do the ultrasound, baby looks perfect, face down, facing my back, moving as she should, she has more than enough amniotic fluid etc etc,, Oh by the way she has hair which I'm so excited about!! Can't wait to see her beautiful face!! But, I digress..... So then we go up to L&D for the NST. They check the baby's heart rate and my irregular contractions which are all fine - monitoring me for 2 hours (WHY I DONT KNOW), then they call the doc and say everything is fine, she insists on giving me a bag of IV fluids and monitoring me for another hour. I know that all she was doing was looking for any reason to keep me there and induce me!! But DF, me and my healthy baby eventually walked outta there AFTER 6 HOURS...... although she was not in my arms but still in my belly. She's just not done cooking and I am trying to be patient.

I've got almost no dilation and a thick cervix so an induction right now would more likely end up with a C-section since my body is not ready.

The other issue is that my mom, the eager first time grandma, who's here for two weeks to help me with the baby is waiting too, and the longer this goes on the less time she has here, by the time the baby comes she's gonna have to leave to go back to work - THIS is what's making me crazy. I really don't need her help now......... I'm capable of doing everything, ugh.... I need to just calm down, but my hormones are making me so emotional too.....

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