Omg I just read your post Froggy about how your OB was saying ivf women choose to be induced or have c-sections becsuse then they can know each date? Really? I've never heard this before, generally I've heard that inducements complicate things, often lead to sections and prolong labour. I'm with you in wanting a natural before 40 weeks. DD came 4 days before I was meant to be induced on my 40th week. I was sweating it out thinking of an induction. I let her do two sweeps the week before to try to get things going and the second one probably did the trick. Sweep wasn't painful at all either, something else I was fearful about.
My 1st birth was really easy with almost no recovery time. I took a shower an hour afterwards and we had a meal 1/2 hour after that. I bled for less than a week and it wasn't even heavy. I couldn't imagine having the recovery time and pain of a c-section by choice. The women who were induced in my babies & birth class had long drawn out labours. I was terrified of being induced after hearing their experiences. I still am. Even with twins I'd like it exactly the same, a half epidural so I can feel my legs, avoid a catheder, but have all the pain of the contractions blocked out. I laboured in the shower at home from 11pm till 2am and it took so much pain away I thought contractions had stopped. But as soon as I'd step out or turn the water off bang! They were back
at 2:30am I was checked into my hospital bed trying to suck on gas & air (which did nothing for me) and then at 5am I was fully dilated and ready to deliver. They gave me a half epidural and she came at 7am with 2 pushes. They laid her on me and she peed - which I told them and they were like yup, that's natural. I was like yup well can we please get a towel? Lol. I know they love to induce twins, or schedule sections but there's no way I'm agreeing to it unless there are complications ie breach, >40 weeks, or delivery complications like heart rates fall or meconium in the waters. My OB is very much like a midwife so I'm sure she'll listen and work with me.
Rq sorry to hear about your pain, hopefully it goes away. I hope you don't get that condition where your hips get so loose it's hard to walk. The progesterone loosening up our joints making our pelvis / hips fall out of alignment, it only gets better after delivery. You can do pilates & yoga to strengthen the muscles that hold the girdle & hips together *early on* as it's meant to help prevent the misalignment but if you're slready getting it everyday it sounds like you're meant to rest.
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