After my 38 week appointment, I was getting slightly concerned because Jameson was nowhere near the birth canal and happily content tucked up high. From then on I spent all of my time walking, doing prenatal yoga and when I was sitting down, I would only sit on a birthing ball. Oh the joys of rocking and bouncing for hours at a time... and running out of things to watch on Netflix!
My 39 week appointment was also pretty uneventful (besides the fact I was so swollen at this point! My feet looked hilarious!) and he still hadn't dropped. I wasn't worried yet because I knew that due dates aren't always accurate.
Jameson's due date (Sunday, May 25th) came and went. I spent that memorial weekend with the in laws, eating bbq and potato salad while wallowing in self pity. You may remember this gem of a photo from my previous post. (YIKES. What an awful picture haha)
At my 40 week appointment the previous Friday, Jameson still hadn't dropped and I wasn't effaced or dilated at all. My Dr was concerned about Jameson's size. We have a long history of big babies and since my mother never went into labor and by herself he didn't want me to go past 41 weeks. Initially I was really stand offish and annoyed at the thought of being induced. I really wanted a natural birth but since I had decided early on that I wasn't going to have my heart set on a specific method/plan and that I would just go with the flow and listen to my body, I decided to just let it be and make the best of it. If I didn't go into labor, my induction was scheduled for Sunday, June 1st. Dr stripped my membranes and I went home.
With an induction looming, and being past my due date, I decided to try some of the things people recommended to kick start my labor. I was already walking (as much as I could before my back felt like it was going to break that last week!), doing yoga, bouncing (and pleading) on a ball and a spicy food lover... one thing I was excited to try was eating eggplant. As many if you know, my brother in law is an Italian/Puerto Rican from New York who served his LDS mission in Italy, so of course I had him make me eggplant parmesan in a giant casserole dish that I feasted on for 3 days. Nom! It definitely didn't help me, but it sure was delicious! Other things I tried were evening primrose oil, red raspberry leaf tea, foot massages, clary sage and rosemary essential oil, sexy time, nipple stimmulation and castor oil (DON'T DO IT. SERIOUSLY. JUST DON'T. If someone recommends castor oil to induce labor, give them the bird and tell them to kiss your ass while you waddle away)... but alas. Not a single contraction.
My last appointment before my induction was on Friday, May 30th. I limped into my Drs office. Still no change. I know I had said I would just go with the flow but I was so sad about being induced and in so much pain! I knew the chances of me going into labor before being induced were pretty slim at this point. My Dr told me that baby boy was measuring at close to 9 lbs and that if I wanted, I could go to the hospital and work the system. Tell them that I was past my due date but I hadn't felt my baby moving a lot so they would monitor me and he would call his friend who was the Dr there that night and tell him to admit me and start my induction. I told him I'd think about it. The thought of being induced even earlier made me feel so guilty. But Travis was definitely sick of pregnant Hayley and lovingly talked me into it.
We showed up at the hospital at 7pm and proceeded with our sneaky plan... which ended up in getting monitored and SENT HOME an hour later! Seriously, WTF. Feeling annoyed that we had packed the car and mentally prepared ourselves to have a baby sometime Saturday instead of Monday, I demanded junk food and made Travis watch Supernatural with me while I cried into the box of ice cream I was inhaling.
At about 9 pm I got a call from my Dr asking me "Why aren't you at the hospital?!" I explained we'd been sent home and he told me that was unacceptable and to stop eating and go BACK to the hopsital
and tell them that my Dr had changed my induction date. So that's what we did.
We checked into Riverton IHC at close to 10 pm.
To be continued...
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