Last night my mw came out and checked me out- I'm well-effaced, not too dilated, but definitely getting there. Baby girl is head down and facing the RIGHT WAY (WOOOOOO HOOOOO! YOU GO GIRL!) their heart rates are fine and they still feel huge 
However my BP was 150/90-ish all three times she took it, up from my norm of less than 120/70 this whole pregnancy... there was a bit of protein in my urine, and I had a raging headache all day yesterday... so the decision was made (after a phone conference with my other midwife and an exam of my nasty pitting edema in my right leg) that it's time for these bubs to come out. She stripped my membranes (OMG, no one ever told me how painful that was, I felt like there was a racoon chewing on my cervix!) and stretched me out a little. I WAS under a lot of stress yesterday, DH had minor carpal tunnel surgery and felt crappy most of the day, DD was being a terror and he couldn't help me much with her, so it's possible that the BP and headache were caused by that- but even so, the babies are BIG, I'm absolutely misery and the protein in the pee (I had ketones too... seems I just can't get enough food in lately to keep my blood sugar at a good level and myself nourished!) is worrisome... and I had DD at 36w5d too, which is just where I am today. I HATE inducing, I feel like a failure in a way and I know that it's not the BEST option... but we're ready, I'm ready, and the blood pressure thing really freaked me out especially with the swelling (my leg looks like a tree trunk, still.)
I just took my second dose of castor oil and am waiting for the good old potty train to come whisk me away into labor-land.
I feel pretty good... crampy already (I was cramping all night from the membrane sweep anyway, but the castor oil seems to have intensified things whether it's psychological or what) and I just lost a nice chunk of mucus plug, but no toilet worshiping quite yet 
Plug loss makes me think I must be dilated to at least 3cm at this point since that's where I lost my plug with DD. the MW will be here around noon or 1, and at that point we'll assess where things are heading from there and maybe try other methods of getting things going, although I'm getting crampier by the minute. I am hoping my BP is down from last night so that's not a concern, either way.
My next update will, I'm hoping, be a birth announcement, one way or another. There's always a so-so chance that the induction/whatever (any induction, really) won't work and if that's the case I am praying hard that my BP stays at a manageable level and nothing else crappy happens so we can still have our homebirth, whenever the twins or ready. Good thoughts are welcome, of course :P (and hopefully these kids come out with nametags on, LOL)
I hope you are all well, I'll be back soon hopefully with news of our birth!
However my BP was 150/90-ish all three times she took it, up from my norm of less than 120/70 this whole pregnancy... there was a bit of protein in my urine, and I had a raging headache all day yesterday... so the decision was made (after a phone conference with my other midwife and an exam of my nasty pitting edema in my right leg) that it's time for these bubs to come out. She stripped my membranes (OMG, no one ever told me how painful that was, I felt like there was a racoon chewing on my cervix!) and stretched me out a little. I WAS under a lot of stress yesterday, DH had minor carpal tunnel surgery and felt crappy most of the day, DD was being a terror and he couldn't help me much with her, so it's possible that the BP and headache were caused by that- but even so, the babies are BIG, I'm absolutely misery and the protein in the pee (I had ketones too... seems I just can't get enough food in lately to keep my blood sugar at a good level and myself nourished!) is worrisome... and I had DD at 36w5d too, which is just where I am today. I HATE inducing, I feel like a failure in a way and I know that it's not the BEST option... but we're ready, I'm ready, and the blood pressure thing really freaked me out especially with the swelling (my leg looks like a tree trunk, still.)
I just took my second dose of castor oil and am waiting for the good old potty train to come whisk me away into labor-land.
I feel pretty good... crampy already (I was cramping all night from the membrane sweep anyway, but the castor oil seems to have intensified things whether it's psychological or what) and I just lost a nice chunk of mucus plug, but no toilet worshiping quite yet Plug loss makes me think I must be dilated to at least 3cm at this point since that's where I lost my plug with DD. the MW will be here around noon or 1, and at that point we'll assess where things are heading from there and maybe try other methods of getting things going, although I'm getting crampier by the minute. I am hoping my BP is down from last night so that's not a concern, either way.My next update will, I'm hoping, be a birth announcement, one way or another. There's always a so-so chance that the induction/whatever (any induction, really) won't work and if that's the case I am praying hard that my BP stays at a manageable level and nothing else crappy happens so we can still have our homebirth, whenever the twins or ready. Good thoughts are welcome, of course :P (and hopefully these kids come out with nametags on, LOL)
I hope you are all well, I'll be back soon hopefully with news of our birth!
