Another doctor’s appointment

This morning Jered and I went to what I hope is our very last doctor’s appointment. We have made a bit of progress- this morning’s statistics are as follows: fingertip dilated, 70% effaced and the baby is at -2 station. This means that things are progressing, but they are not as far as I along as I had hoped. Of course, I was hoping for “the baby is crowning, off to labor and delivery you go!” which isn’t exactly realistic either!

The plan of action is to wait it out this week and see if things get moving on their own. If not, we are scheduled for another appointment next Monday (when I will be 41 weeks) to see if I’ve made any more progress. Depending on that appointment we would then move forward with cervidil (which is a cervical ripening agent) which they would administer in the evening and send me home. The next morning I would get checked again, and hopefully labor will have started up on its own through the cervidil. If not, I would then be admitted next Tuesday or Wednesday for an induction with pitocin. We are really hoping that it won’t come to that. I want to give this hypnobirthing thing a good honest try, and I know that labor induced with pitocin is far more difficult than a labor that starts on its own. Of course, we are only just due this week, so I am still quite hopeful that things will get moving in the next few days, all on their own!

We will keep you all updated, but at this point it looks like we have a tentative “end” date to the pregnancy on or before June 18th or 19th… let’s hope for sooner- we are ready to meet the baby and I am ready to not be pregnant anymore!!

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