At this point since my dr thinks i'll be having a small baby due to bump growth and size do u think he's right or it's still way to early to be able to predict?
Does being induced hurt? I'm guessing u take the epidural right before right? Althought i've heard of some women being induced and it still taking forever to give birth damnit..
It is still too early to know if Charlie is going to be small, but since neither you or your husband seem to be big and you seem to be fairly small I would bet your will have a smaller sized baby. BUT, DS was always "average" on his ultrasounds and I always measured average at my appts, but he was 9lbs, so I think sometimes it is hard to know for sure. To me the weight isn't as much a factor as how big their head and shoulders are. I have a friend who is built like you Jessy and both of her babies were a little over 8lbs and she had "easy" deliveries with both (not a lot of pushing/tearing). In fact with her 2nd she only had to push 1 and half times and her daughter was born and she didn't need any stitches! DS on the other hand had a huge head and broad shoulders. I think even if he weighed 8lbs I would have still had trouble delivering him. I will have to post one of his baby pics sometime
Induction itself doesn't hurt, they are just giving you medicine to make you contract, which you would do anyway if you went into labor naturally. The bad part is you have to be hooked up to an IV and if they don't give you the dosage correctly your labor can progress quicker than you are dilating, which happened to me ( which delayed me even more because they had to turn the medicine back down and then increase it more slowly). It is usually a longer labor because it is medicine forcing the contractions, not your body doing it naturally. Oh and I didn't get my epidural right away, you can be induced and not get pain meds if you choose. It is the same as a natural labor, when/if you get an epidural is up to you.
I'm excited too though!
