At 38 weeks pregnant, I don't feel like I am about to have a baby. I can't even grasp it. It's beyond my comprehension.
It's coming though. It may come sooner rather than later. My due date is August 13th and the doctors want to induce me around then. My gestational diabetes means I won't be able to carry the baby past 40 weeks.
So any time in the next two weeks, I could go into labor on my own or I could be induced when I hit my due date. There is a finish line in sight.
She is huge and fills my whole stomach now. She moves in rolls and waves and pressed hard against me. I have some cramping, some braxton hicks contractions and some pelvic pain. I know that these are signs that she is coming but I still don't feel like it will happen soon. I feel like I will make it to my due date and get induced. I really want to labor on my own but I am ready if that doesn't happen.
I am so in love with her I think. I don't know her or anything about her but I can tell I will be smitten.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Induction Looms
It is the weekend and I only have two weeks left at work. On Monday, I will be 35 weeks pregnant. Oh, how did this happen? I was just marveling that I had fewer than 200 days left in pregnancy and, BAM!, I have 37 days until my due date. Thirty-seven days is just one very long month.
I may have less than that. The doctors tell me they will induce my labor at my due date. I am not a fan of this plan. My diabetes is completely diet controlled and my baby is growing perfectly. She isn't even a speck too big. Still, they say induction is necessary and that the risk of maternal death increases if I go past. I'd like to know a number honestly. How much does it increase. Are we talking from one in a million to two in a million? Or is it exponential and real.
So many moms with gestational diabetes aren't following their diets. Their babies are growing really big. Aren't they the ones at higher risk? Amanda thinks I should refuse the induction but the worried part of me won't refuse. I've already lost a pregnancy and I've watched my nephew die. I know that neither of those situations could have been changed by an induction but I am no longer so headstrong about my gut feeling.
If the worst thing that happens is I get an induction and my labor is worse than if allowed to go naturally, so be it. I don't want to increase any risks to the baby or me for that matter.
Baby, here you are a week ago. I can't believe how pregnant I am.
I may have less than that. The doctors tell me they will induce my labor at my due date. I am not a fan of this plan. My diabetes is completely diet controlled and my baby is growing perfectly. She isn't even a speck too big. Still, they say induction is necessary and that the risk of maternal death increases if I go past. I'd like to know a number honestly. How much does it increase. Are we talking from one in a million to two in a million? Or is it exponential and real.
So many moms with gestational diabetes aren't following their diets. Their babies are growing really big. Aren't they the ones at higher risk? Amanda thinks I should refuse the induction but the worried part of me won't refuse. I've already lost a pregnancy and I've watched my nephew die. I know that neither of those situations could have been changed by an induction but I am no longer so headstrong about my gut feeling.
If the worst thing that happens is I get an induction and my labor is worse than if allowed to go naturally, so be it. I don't want to increase any risks to the baby or me for that matter.
Baby, here you are a week ago. I can't believe how pregnant I am.
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