Wow, seems like we had a bunch of babies arrive in the last couple days....so who else is still hanging out? I am now 3 days late, and I know a few of you are way more overdue than that, right?
According to my mw, baby is doing great, and I'm still feeling fine, so honestly I wouldn't be so impatient if my husband didn't have to leave soon
He managed to change his flight from Friday morning to Saturday night, which buys us an extra day and a half for this baby to come!! (at a cost of nearly $2,000 to his company for a new ticket....ugh!) I thought I'd be OK with everything but I admit as the days go by I've gotten more and more scared of going through labor without him. And if he's not there, then I would ask my mom to be there with me, but then that means she can't watch the kids so that's another problem. It doesn't help that the kids are sensing our anxiety now and it's affecting them too. They were so happy & excited about the baby coming last week, but now with all this stress they're alternately acting out really badly and being really clingy 
: We were just so sure that he'd be early or right on time or something, I guess we were kind of in denial!
At my last checkup on Tuesday, I was just about 3 cm dilated but not effaced at all - that surprised me but mw said it's common for third babies & beyond. She said baby is in a great position, my cervix is no longer posterior, it was very easy to reach and very soft even though still long, although the baby's head is still fairly high, it's dropped a little from the week before.
I hate to admit it, but with all my mainstream friends saying, "You're crazy, I can't believe with your husband leaving for Europe in a couple of days, you're not just going to go get induced?!?! I would have been induced 2 weeks ago!" I actually considered it for a minute today
My mw gave me her favorite recipes for "castor oil cocktails" in case I want to try a more "natural" method...but it just sounds like such a rotten way to go into labor! I just don't know what to do anymore. I don't want to have this baby without my husband there. I don't want him to miss his son's birth. But I also don't want an induction and a medicalized birth with all kinds of interventions again, or an entire day of diarrhea and stomach pain from castor oil either! I should have known this was a possibility all along but I guess I just didn't let myself think about it too much.
What would you guys do?
How is everyone else feeling/coping?
According to my mw, baby is doing great, and I'm still feeling fine, so honestly I wouldn't be so impatient if my husband didn't have to leave soon
He managed to change his flight from Friday morning to Saturday night, which buys us an extra day and a half for this baby to come!! (at a cost of nearly $2,000 to his company for a new ticket....ugh!) I thought I'd be OK with everything but I admit as the days go by I've gotten more and more scared of going through labor without him. And if he's not there, then I would ask my mom to be there with me, but then that means she can't watch the kids so that's another problem. It doesn't help that the kids are sensing our anxiety now and it's affecting them too. They were so happy & excited about the baby coming last week, but now with all this stress they're alternately acting out really badly and being really clingy : We were just so sure that he'd be early or right on time or something, I guess we were kind of in denial!At my last checkup on Tuesday, I was just about 3 cm dilated but not effaced at all - that surprised me but mw said it's common for third babies & beyond. She said baby is in a great position, my cervix is no longer posterior, it was very easy to reach and very soft even though still long, although the baby's head is still fairly high, it's dropped a little from the week before.
I hate to admit it, but with all my mainstream friends saying, "You're crazy, I can't believe with your husband leaving for Europe in a couple of days, you're not just going to go get induced?!?! I would have been induced 2 weeks ago!" I actually considered it for a minute today
My mw gave me her favorite recipes for "castor oil cocktails" in case I want to try a more "natural" method...but it just sounds like such a rotten way to go into labor! I just don't know what to do anymore. I don't want to have this baby without my husband there. I don't want him to miss his son's birth. But I also don't want an induction and a medicalized birth with all kinds of interventions again, or an entire day of diarrhea and stomach pain from castor oil either! I should have known this was a possibility all along but I guess I just didn't let myself think about it too much.What would you guys do?
How is everyone else feeling/coping?
: hay! im still here,still prego,still not up to much.i was stripped on last friday didnt do much,2-3 cm dilated with a good amt of cervix left. no action yet......we had all of our new parent friends over for a cook out this eve to try to coax her out 
no dice!
Did either of you hire doulas? Seems like one of those situations where it would be nice to have one on call just incase your support people aren't there for you.
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: to see how everyone else is doing.
I can relate to your worries about DH (or support person) missing the birth. When my mw thought that my due date was early May, I found out that my DH was leaving for Panama for a whole week and would be gone during the "due date." Luckily, we found out that my due date really was in June so it made me feel alot better about him leaving but I was a wreck for a few days, not knowing. Good Luck to you Mamas! 
