Re: Answers to Sue - Please all--wish me luck--Baby TODAY

[Guest guest]

Oh - I am sending you LABOR VIBES!!!! You go girl!

Wishing you a safe and healthy delivery and remember that your

body/baby knows the right time to come out and greet the world!

Thinking positive thoughts for you!

Vicki in Lakewood

> Oh that's not the worst of it..if the induction fails again

today..they are

> going to send me home until the first week in August and then

induce again

> (putting me at FORTY TWO WEEKS!) and put me through the THIRD

induction

> attempt and then if that fails they will SCHEDULE a C-Section..not

just

> immediately give me one so that potentially be another 2 or 3 days

out.

>

> Push??? I'd love to get to the point of pushing..but you can't

push if the

> baby isn't down there ready to go. The pitocin did it's job and

started the

> contractions..very hard ones that were consistent too..but I'm not

dilating

> and if I'm not dilating enough then they can't break my waters and

labor

> won't go. (That's why a failed induction is COMPLETELY

mortifying..you go

> through half of labor..I went through 9 hours of consistent hard

> contractions..with NO EPIDURAL...and then no pushing and no baby

at the end

> of the tunnel).

>

> But I'm with you, Sue--I'm so ticked off that she won't just do the

> C-Section. The baby is very big right now already (Ultrasound

measures 8

> lbs. 4 ozs as of last Thursday so one week ago) and I'm so

miserable I can't

> even function anymore if feels like. I'm supposed to be sleeping

and

> resting up for another round of this nightmare induction and of

course I

> can't sleep. How can somebody sleep with 50 pounds of baby just

lying on

> top of them and no position is comfortable!

>

> Why did they schedule induction because I am showing signs of Pre-

E. I

> gained 20 pounds nice and slow through the first part of the

pregnancy and

> then BAM..THIRTY pounds in the last five weeks. 30. That is a

LOT. Doc

> said I would have to be eating fulltime and not going to my job

for that to

> all be food weight. Plus the baby is big and I'm a week overdue

according

> to her due date and almost three weeks if my numbers are correct.

>

> Please, please--let this happen today. My normally sunny

disposition is

> GONE.

> Re: If you're interested--failed induction for me

>

>

> Oh, Honey! I'm so sorry and can't believe they sent you home

with the

> bun

> still in the oven! I'm surprised they didn't just take her/him

by

> c-section

> after putting you through all of that. Why did they induce you

in the

> first

> place?

>

> Two more days...you can DO IT!! Hang in there and push on

Thursday like

> nobody's business!!

>

> Hope to see you and your babe at Elma's!

> Sue

> yakima

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[Guest guest]

Gosh...I hope we haven't heard from you because you're in recovery!!!! GO

MICHELLE!!!!