YOU GO, GIRL! Soooo good that you were able to stand up to that craziness. Here's how I feel about OBs and CNMs who use "standard of OB care" to try and convince us to agree to dangerous medical intervention... :Puke
I totally empathize with you!!! We had to do the same 10 months ago when I was 43 weeks pregnant w/ DS. Our OB tried to force me into an induction no less than 3 times (starting at 40 weeks), and each time I was saying "Hey, wait a minute. There is no medical indication that I should be induced! All the NSTs and biophysical profiles have shown that the baby is fine, that I am fine, that we're healthy. Why can't we do expectant management? Why can't we do evidence-based medicine?" It's really unfortunate that so many care providers can't or won't take each woman's case individually instead of always trying to force us into the "averages." Shoot, my cycles were 33-35 days long... so I wasn't shocked that my kids take a little longer to bake. ANYWAY, I know that stress of dealing with an ignorant OB - mine called us on the phone on a Friday night after we cancelled the final induction and very respectfully & gently explained that we were releasing them of any responsibility & ending our care with them (as we understood the limitations of "standard of care" and insurance liability) and she was CRAZY irate. She dropped the "do you want to have a dead baby?!?" card on us, she tried to bully us into showing up at the hospital, she tried to accuse us of "having the baby in the kitchen sink" and "what about your calcified placenta?!?!" She asked to speak to my DH, as if he was just going to be her robot (ha, was she wrong!). It was *unreal* the way she yelled at us - unbelievably unprofessional. She was welcome to disagree with our decision, to have concerns, but to treat a hugely pregnant mother that way? Unacceptable. Period. We ended up having a beautiful waterbirth at home with a CPM.
So GOOD FOR YOU. Check in with yourself and your baby in these final days of your pregnancy - if you are worried about anything, follow up on it. And if possible, go take a walk at your local zoo to let all of those animal pheremones encourage your body into labor land... a wonderful, wise doula suggested we do this, and it absolutely worked for us (walked around the animals for an hour or two, left the zoo at 5:30pm, first contraction hit at 6:30pm, baby was out by 8:30pm though I would not recommend a labor that fast).
Sending wonderful labor vibes your way!!!
I totally empathize with you!!! We had to do the same 10 months ago when I was 43 weeks pregnant w/ DS. Our OB tried to force me into an induction no less than 3 times (starting at 40 weeks), and each time I was saying "Hey, wait a minute. There is no medical indication that I should be induced! All the NSTs and biophysical profiles have shown that the baby is fine, that I am fine, that we're healthy. Why can't we do expectant management? Why can't we do evidence-based medicine?" It's really unfortunate that so many care providers can't or won't take each woman's case individually instead of always trying to force us into the "averages." Shoot, my cycles were 33-35 days long... so I wasn't shocked that my kids take a little longer to bake. ANYWAY, I know that stress of dealing with an ignorant OB - mine called us on the phone on a Friday night after we cancelled the final induction and very respectfully & gently explained that we were releasing them of any responsibility & ending our care with them (as we understood the limitations of "standard of care" and insurance liability) and she was CRAZY irate. She dropped the "do you want to have a dead baby?!?" card on us, she tried to bully us into showing up at the hospital, she tried to accuse us of "having the baby in the kitchen sink" and "what about your calcified placenta?!?!" She asked to speak to my DH, as if he was just going to be her robot (ha, was she wrong!). It was *unreal* the way she yelled at us - unbelievably unprofessional. She was welcome to disagree with our decision, to have concerns, but to treat a hugely pregnant mother that way? Unacceptable. Period. We ended up having a beautiful waterbirth at home with a CPM.
So GOOD FOR YOU. Check in with yourself and your baby in these final days of your pregnancy - if you are worried about anything, follow up on it. And if possible, go take a walk at your local zoo to let all of those animal pheremones encourage your body into labor land... a wonderful, wise doula suggested we do this, and it absolutely worked for us (walked around the animals for an hour or two, left the zoo at 5:30pm, first contraction hit at 6:30pm, baby was out by 8:30pm though I would not recommend a labor that fast).
Sending wonderful labor vibes your way!!!
