We could've met our little boy yesterday! I know what you must be thinking....are they crazy?
At our 39 week appointment, our doctor brought up the possibility of inducing labor on our "actual" due date, August 20th, which was a week or so away. We had another appointment with him this week and he was still encouraging us to induce labor on Thursday, August 20th, which was the one day of the week that he would be on call. Before we even went into the appointment, Chris and I decided that inducing was not what we wanted to do at this point in the pregnancy. After the appointment, we somewhat waffled on what the right thing to do was. Our doctor gave us a pretty convincing argument as to why would should induce but no part of the argument seemed to give any medical reason as to why it was necessary to induce on our due date. The baby is fine and I am fine, no problem with high blood pressure or anything else.
That was the kicker for us. There seemed to be no medical reason for us to go ahead and induce labor. The kind of inducing that would require an overnight stay in the hospital to prepare my cervix for labor and then be given the labor inducing drugs the following morning. It just felt like a little too much to put that much stress on the baby and me for no particular reason.
As I mentioned before, the doctor wanted to induce on our "actual" due date. This is the due date that the doctors have on file. Our ultrasound due date, which we trust more, is August 24th, so technically inducing labor on August 20th would have been 4 days before we were even full term. I really didn't want to have our baby out of convenience for us or the doctor. I know that our baby boy will make his appearance when he is good and ready. If he doesn't get good and ready, then we will induce labor next Saturday, August 29th, when our doctor is on call again. We have a non stress test scheduled for Monday where they will check the baby to make sure everything is good with him. If not, then we would be scheduled for an induction that night. Wish us luck! Hopefully Baby J will make his appearance before Monday on his own!
Don't listen to those doctors:-) Seriously though, I did witness a lot of labor inductions out of convenience to the doctor, so GOOD JOB holding your ground!
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