So, I'm getting a little nervous about ending up with an in hospital induced birth... (planning to birth at a fsbc)
I'm 38 weeks 2 days with twins and being monitored like a hawk b/c of placenta and fluid issues from last month. For the past two or three weeks of monitoring, everything has looked perfect - so my mw and back up ob have been content to watch and see what happens. But, here are my concerns now...
Just this week, my bp has started to rise. My mw says that it's definitely not hypertensive at this point, but that we need to keep an eye on it (3 out of the 5 pregnancies my sister's have had were induced for pih). And just this week I've started to get some pretty good swelling in my feet - although no pitting, so I think it's mainly attributed to the walking I've been doing to try to help things along. Also, the baby whose fluid we were initially concerned with may be starting to drop again. Last week we measured it at 15 cm (how it got back up that high after being at 4 at 33 weeks, I'll never know) and this week it was 10. I'm hoping she was just hiding some of it and we can get a higher measurement today.
Anyway, I'm starting to feel like if my bp rises at all or if her fluid drops at all - then I'll be off to the hospital for the third time, only this time, I'm pretty sure I'd come home with the babies. Which at this point, I feel confident that they'd be healthy and ready to come home - but I'd definitely be less comfortable with an in hospital birth...
So, since last Friday, my mw has tried twice to strip my membranes so we can get this show on the road but my cervix has yet to open enough. Monday, she said it was noticeably softer and a "dimple" dilated... I'm really hoping that today it's opened a bit more and she can do it, or that I'll just labor naturally in the next couple of days.
I've come so far and so close to getting a wonderful, natural, out of hospital birth with these twins - I'd hate to lose it now!!!
I'm 38 weeks 2 days with twins and being monitored like a hawk b/c of placenta and fluid issues from last month. For the past two or three weeks of monitoring, everything has looked perfect - so my mw and back up ob have been content to watch and see what happens. But, here are my concerns now...
Just this week, my bp has started to rise. My mw says that it's definitely not hypertensive at this point, but that we need to keep an eye on it (3 out of the 5 pregnancies my sister's have had were induced for pih). And just this week I've started to get some pretty good swelling in my feet - although no pitting, so I think it's mainly attributed to the walking I've been doing to try to help things along. Also, the baby whose fluid we were initially concerned with may be starting to drop again. Last week we measured it at 15 cm (how it got back up that high after being at 4 at 33 weeks, I'll never know) and this week it was 10. I'm hoping she was just hiding some of it and we can get a higher measurement today.
Anyway, I'm starting to feel like if my bp rises at all or if her fluid drops at all - then I'll be off to the hospital for the third time, only this time, I'm pretty sure I'd come home with the babies. Which at this point, I feel confident that they'd be healthy and ready to come home - but I'd definitely be less comfortable with an in hospital birth...
So, since last Friday, my mw has tried twice to strip my membranes so we can get this show on the road but my cervix has yet to open enough. Monday, she said it was noticeably softer and a "dimple" dilated... I'm really hoping that today it's opened a bit more and she can do it, or that I'll just labor naturally in the next couple of days.
I've come so far and so close to getting a wonderful, natural, out of hospital birth with these twins - I'd hate to lose it now!!!
