Please tell me your overdue with happy ending stories! - Page 2

[katja]

Oh, gosh, I remember the crying. It is so hard being there, but it will happen! DD was born 12 days past EDD. Midwife had already scheduled induction for a few days later. I thought I had no chance of having the home birth I wanted. Every day I woke up crying because I labor hadn't started yet. I remember sobbing and begging baby to "get! out!" I had also avoided US, but had one after 41 weeks. I had BPP and NST, done by a real jerk of an OB who said if he was my OB, he would never have let me go so far overdue, and that I was "not a candidate for a home birth" because my baby was just too big. By the way, I had no real contractions, dilation, or effacement until I actually went into labor. (Backup OB said I was "uninduceable.") Happy ending is that dd was born at home, 8 lbs, happy baby with no signs of post-dates. I don't have any advice about the NST. Mine went okay, so it wasn't such a bad experience, but I do know that they can be used as excuse for induction. Maybe if baby is active, it would be less stressful for you to skip the NST. You sound really strong. Stand up for your rights! Baby will come soon, no doubt about it. Try to distract yourself as much as possible. Let us all know how you are doing!

(I should confess that I did take a tablespoon of castor oil about 2 hours before I went into labor. Whether it really helped, I do not know. It wasn't even enough to cause cramping or the other well-known symptoms.)

[Ellien C]

I was "due" on the 12th and delivered on the 20th. That "date" business is just something made up by doctors. You can't estimate down to a specific day, when a baby will be born. My advice to newly pregnant women now is to not tell anyone your "due date." Just send mid-october. And don't think of it as a date, think of it as a date range. It's just an estimate, with half coming before said date and half coming after! It's silly really, you can't predict birth down to a date!

I was 100lb pre-pregnancy and had a 8lb 90z beautiful girl with no pain drugs and 18 hours of labor in the hospital. Ended up with pitocin when my labor stopped, but probably wouldn't do that again. I had a hospital birth at a hospital that provides doula's free of charge to anyone who asks. On the whole, it was a good experience.

Oh yeah - we had sex 4 days before the baby was born. A lady at work gave me that tip. It did seem to trigger some practice labor later that day.

[water]

Not to be too snarky, but you only went 8 days over, I am now pushing 12 days, and my concern is possible pressure to induce. I was fine at 8 days over too!!!

We have been having uncomfortable, non-fun sex almost everyday, I am also using EPO vaginally and orally, I took an entire bottle of homeopathic blue and homeopathic black cohosh this weekend with no result, I have taken hot baths/showers and "relaxed and talked" with the baby, none of this to any avail.

I go in for another NST and an AFI (amniotic fluid index - not sure what this entails, at least an ultrasound) tomorrow. I am going to drink 64 ounces of water and eat a donut before I go in so as to make the experience as easy as possible.

I am thinking of doing castor oil on Thursday, but I just keep hearing bad stories about it. Maybe I'll take just a teaspoon full and see what happens.

This sucks flat out sucks. My friends all think I'm crazy because they either asked to be induced at 38 weeks because they were "sick of being pregnant" or they keep assuring me that the "doctors won't LET you go over 42 weeks anyway" which is A) not true, the OB/midwife practice here is very progressive and as long as the baby looks ok they have no prob with you going over, and B) I don't CARE WHAT THE OBs say anyway and will refuse pitocin induction, arrrrrrghhhhhh....

[2+twins]

Originally Posted by water

Not to be too snarky, but you only went 8 days over, I am now pushing 12 days, and my concern is possible pressure to induce. I was fine at 8 days over too!!!

We have been having uncomfortable, non-fun sex almost everyday, I am also using EPO vaginally and orally, I took an entire bottle of homeopathic blue and homeopathic black cohosh this weekend with no result, I have taken hot baths/showers and "relaxed and talked" with the baby, none of this to any avail.

I go in for another NST and an AFI (amniotic fluid index - not sure what this entails, at least an ultrasound) tomorrow. I am going to drink 64 ounces of water and eat a donut before I go in so as to make the experience as easy as possible.

I am thinking of doing castor oil on Thursday, but I just keep hearing bad stories about it. Maybe I'll take just a teaspoon full and see what happens.

This sucks flat out sucks. My friends all think I'm crazy because they either asked to be induced at 38 weeks because they were "sick of being pregnant" or they keep assuring me that the "doctors won't LET you go over 42 weeks anyway" which is A) not true, the OB/midwife practice here is very progressive and as long as the baby looks ok they have no prob with you going over, and B) I don't CARE WHAT THE OBs say anyway and will refuse pitocin induction, arrrrrrghhhhhh....

Good luck mama! You'll get there soon!

[CJ 5]

I do remember just being a hysterical mess that two weeks that I went over because of fear of induction.
Have you had a NStest??? Do you know if your baby is head down or a big baby? Just curious

Pm me if you want to talk more and need support. I pushed my midwife to change my due date to the latest day possible even though I knew the exact day of conception I lied so she could do it.
I went exactly 42 weeks from my true due date and only went into labor from doing the cohash.Did you do the tincture???? That did nothing for me. I had to do alternating homeopathic tablets every 15 minutes. Get lots of sleep and start at 5:00 in the morning if you can. I did it at night. I also finally had my midwife strip my membranes and then did the cohash. It did the trick but I took like way toooo large of dose. like 10 capsules every 15 minutes because I was confused and I did like 4 enemas. I really don't think you need to go that extreme. I just messed up the dose by accident.

Here is my post on it
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=170437

If I were to do it again I would follow the dose in the thread. I would also have my membranes stripped before I tried it. I think that did the trick and the two combined saved me from doing Gel. I would skip the enema unless I did it with just plain water. The tea might have been a bit much.
BTW I think this was far better than castor oil.

[water]

Hey thanks for the reply. I think "hysterical mess" is a pretty accurate description of me right now :LOL

I had my midwife strip my membranes at my last appointment a week ago, but I guess it didn't do anything...I was 3 cm dilated and 80% effaced at the time, so who knows what I am now. I have another appointment tomorrow so maybe I will ask her to strip them again and see if anything happens.

I did do the homeopathic blue and black cohosh, using pamamidwife's protocol from your other thread actually! But nothing. I did 5 tabs alternating every 15 minutes for two hours. I did this four times over the weekend, morning and night, but nothing!

I'm not sure I'm up for the enema yet, I'll talk to the midwife tomorrow about the tinctures too.

I did have a NST and everything looked fine, baby is head-down and low they say, I have another one tomorrow too...I am expecting a big baby, my ds was 8.5 lbs, so I would think at least a nine-pounder!!

Again, thanks for the support, I need it...

[CJ 5]

Water ..
I think that a lot of going overdue is how your baby is positioned. When I was in labor my midwife said I had the thickest cervical lip she had seen in 20 years. I guess Tayia had her hand wrapped up by her face like a scarf and her head was tilted sideways so that she never really pushed on my cervix. I was only a 2 and 30% effaced the day I did the cohash. She was over 9 lbs and it was my first baby. hmmm maybe it was the enema that did the trick. I just wish I knew what that weird pain in my side was. Probably just her elbow... who knows.

I am sending birthing thoughts your way. If it comes down to it I would have done the castor oil before the gel. I would have done the gel to go and had them let me go home to wait and see if I went into labor. There is no way I would have done a pitocin induction.

[Katana]

Just wanted to lend you some support and good thoughts.

Ds was born exactly two weeks past his farthest due date, and I remember being so afraid of being forced to be induced. Nothing, I mean nothing would get him to come out.

He was 10lbs 8 oz and 24 inches when he finally made his appearence. Strong, healthy, alert and beautiful. He also told me, when he was about two, that he didn't want to come out, he wanted to stay inside of me forever.

I know how hard it is, waiting. It does seem like forever. Sometimes I still wonder how I ever got him out. Good luck!

[mandalamama]

i was only 4 days overdue when i went into labor, but it seemed like i'd waited forever because they'd started talking induction back at 32 weeks for pre-eclampsia! i just kept refusing to even talk about induction and said "my body will do what it's supposed to when it's supposed to." i also acted as if pregnancy was an eternal, blissful state ... why would i want to rush it? the only time i was stressed was when i worried about the induction talks. i went into labor naturally, and while i had a very long labor and an emergency c-birth, it had nothing to do with being past-dates. i'm very, very glad i just listened to my body and did what it wanted to do

peace,
meli