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Ok update again. Still in hospital. They wanted to put me back on the medication and monitor me overnight AGAIN so basically what they did last night but instead of taking me off the meds... Leave me on them this time... But as I was quite stressed about spending another night here they have agreed to let me go home at 9pm to sleep and be back at 7.45am to be monitored. If my bp is bad they will induce me. If not, I will have a stretch and sweep to try and get things moving along with out inducing me. So yeah that's where I'm at!

@Mrs squirreld: I hope it all works out how you want!

Ladies, the babe isn't even here yet and I'm going to kill my MIL. First the waiting room issue which just pisses me off...I don't want her out there. Now, we've kept the induction mostly to ourselves because really everyone doesn't need to know how the babe came into the world...and she's told everyone she knows, which of course has filtered over into my Facebook. I'm so pissed theres a comment on my profile picture right now that I just want to delete but I won't...
ETA: Am I being unreasonable? I mean we told people over the weekend? Is she just excited? My mom told people too but they aren't "our" friends as well so if she hasn't told me she did I'd have never known it.

@MamaMagpie: congratulations on a smooth delivery! Love his name!

@jetsa: I agree with the other ladies, I'd be upset too if someone was publicly posting all about my induction/delivery/c-section/whatever. That's for you to announce, should you choose. Like @evansjamie: I also told relatives and friends to "keep this off facebook" until we felt comfortable announcing our pregnancy at work and making it official. Thankfully only SIL was annoyed (she posts EVERYTHING) but everyone else understood. Don't worry, I don't think this is just pregnancy hormones, I'd be the same way.

@MamaMagpie: Congratulations, he is so sweet! Such a handsome boy!

@Mrs squirreld: I'm sorry, your having such a rough time, but I'm glad you got to go home to sleep. Hope the stretch and sweep gets things moving for you!

@jetsa: I would be so irritated, I'm really private and don't want people to know until after the baby is born, plus it's your news to share! I'm not sure why people don't understand normal boundaries, I'm sorry!

I'm totally feeling jealous of all the babies being born, I'm officially ready, but I'll probably go over my EDD so I need to get comfortable with waiting a while longer.

@Meltini: So, we just talked about this in my birth class, but what is leading him to believe that your baby may be too large? What are the statistics that he gave you? Is he going off of an ultrasound, because those can be off by up to 2 pounds either way. Are you fairly petite? I tend to be skeptical anyway when it comes to doctors, which is why I ask these questions.

@Meltini: When we went over this in class, our instructor said that one of the worst things in terms of interventions is having a doctor who 'thinks' you have a large baby. Just because a baby is suspected to be large doesn't mean that dystocia will happen or that he/she will not fit through the mother's pelvis. A lot of doctors want to rush labor and put you on a timetable, when sometimes all you need is time.

I'm curious, how does your OB feel about movement during labor? We talk a lot about how in order to move the baby during labor, you need to move the mother, and that being confined to bed/on your back is one of the least productive and most painful labor positions.

I'm coming from this from a more natural mindset. My birth class is an Empowered Birth class and is taught by a doula. I go to a midwife, and since I'm GBS- I can labor at home for 16 hours after my water breaks unless it's green/brown or has a fishy smell. They encourage movement during labor and low interventions.

@Meltini: Well, I think that whatever brings your baby here safely is the best thing. We just talked about the cascade of interventions that can happen while using pain medication in our class last night, so I'm especially freaked out and wary at this point in time. I'm aiming for an un-medicated vaginal birth hopefully and am due in early October, but I've been lurking this board since I could go in late September.

@Meltini: I've so been where you are! I was aiming for an unmedicated vaginal birth with my first, and I was convinced into getting an induction because they were concerned about her size. I'm not going to lie, she was a big baby (9lbs 9 oz and a fist at the face). While I'm more on the natural hippie-dippie side of labor and birth, I decided to go in for an induction out of fear that my body wouldn't be able to birth her. I chose a slow induction method that didn't involve pitocin, and I was able to give birth to her pain med free after 60 hours of labor (6 of those were active, 3 of those were pushing). The OB ended up being very very thankful that I didn't have the epidural because of her size and how effectively I was able to push. For what it's worth, she was pretty sure that I would have ended up with a C-Section if I had the epidural simply because of her size and the fist. There were also a few more medical personnel peeps in the room as I was pushing because they were concerned about her shoulders fitting.

I'm not saying this path is the you want for you and your baby, just my experience. I will say that I came away from that birth feeling like I could trust my body with anything (something I really struggled with before), and I felt very empowered. I don't believe that your body will grow a baby that it can't birth unless there's something else medically going on. You are more powerful than you know. Honestly though, it was the fear that got me to agree to that induction, and I think that having fear while in labor is destructive. Anyway, not sure if that made sense, just wanted to offer up a perspective. You know what makes the most sense for you and your baby at this point, trust it.

@marionberry: oh so adorable!!!! I just want to kiss him!

I really want to reply to everyone eapecially those getting induced but am on my phone at the hospital again so it's a bit hard, I'll respond to everyone a bit later.

So my BP is looking great on meds, but they have decided to induce me anyway as I'm so close to 40weeks and as I am staying on the medication this is their policy. So I'm happy with that - I just wanted someone to make a decision!!! Obviously an induction isn't ideal but after everything that has happened this week it's definitely the best thing for me to reduce my stress. I still want to aim for a natural vaginal birth so we'll go in to the induction still in that frame of mind - I know it's still do-able!!
Had another ECG this morning bub is still really happy and I was having contractions!! Hahaha how ironic! I could only really feel them after the wife pointed them out and then I could definitely notice them. Not hugely painful though so clearly early labour waiting on when the induction will be. Looking like tomorrow at this point on the 18th. Will be having a scan today to check everything, but here's hoping I could still go into labor naturally!!! Anyways... I am totally rambling! Ill let you know when we know for sure!
@jetsa: goodluck today xo

@Mrs squirreld: yay for a decision! a vaginal pain-med free birth is my plan. My MW did warn me though that if my BP spikes too much an epidural would be the safest for babe and I. So I'm going to attempt to relax relax relax! Thanks for thinking of me I just saw it! Also just saw that they may induce you tomorrow!! Good luck with it!

AFM we just pulled up to the hospital to get this party started!

@evansjamie: thank you! My DH is still trying to convince his mom to chill out and let us notify her tomorrow.

@evansjamie: me too, the last reply was I know I was there all day and night with xyz that's not our point!

I'm still not admitted and someone in labor just came up. I hope I don't get sent home!

@jetsa: hope your induction is well under way! I want to stay pain med free too! Here's to a positive induction story for both of us!!

Soo... We had our scan, bub is all good and everything looks great. They are estimating him at 7 pounds 2 ounces so that sounds good... Although its only an estimate! They are still keen to induce me though. I had a membrane sweep and am at 1cm dialated so they did a stretch. As I'm already having contractions labor may start on its own if we are lucky! So we are back home now waiting for a phone call to confirm the induction date. Eeek!

@jetsa: hope you get some progress!!!

So we are booked in for our induction at 2pm tomorrow so in your time I think that's 2/3am on the 18th. So hopefully by the time you are all awake something might be happening. Eeeek!! So exciting. We just went for a walk to try and see of things get moving on their own and now DH is cooking me dinner!

@Mrs squirreld: I'm so excited for you, ypu should hold that babe in your arms jb the next 2 days!

AFM I haven't been checked again yet but that should occur shortly. They left me have an ambien so I got almost 6 hours of sleep between checks and meds.

ETA: they just checked me and cervix isn't having the cytotec. I'm a 1-2 still, so now we are waiting on my MW to decide the next step.