Overdue!

Okay, so not to my surprise I am overdue again.
So I just thought I may aswell start a thread for us all to moan in together (LOL!) and discuss our options and share methods for natural induction.

I'm thinking this time round of leaving making a date for induction till atleast 42+2 or so. Anyone had experence here / what are your views?

I think bubs is just too darn comfy in here!!

For some odd reason my midwife said they dont let mothers carry for more than ten days past due date... is this the truth? I ended up having a really BAD birth and almost lost the two of us... I don't think this would have occured if I had waited a little longer! Being induced isn't fun! 42+2 sounds like a good time :)

manda they say that but really if the baby is ok they cant force you. None of my babies came before 42 weeks and were all forcibly evicted after that date too. I think toby was my longest at 42 + 3. eden - my last - i tried to hold out but being in the vulnerable state of pregnant and overdue it was really hard to not be forced into induction. I should have stuck to my guns on that one cause eden was born by emergency c section in the end after too much intervention.

funnily enough i took EPO most of my pregnancy with gabriel and it didnt help, sex didnt either - it was just very uncomfortable and almost funny!

i have a farmer friend who says that with cows it is the male that determines if it will be overdue or not, so i blame my husband entirely!

Manda23 wrote: For some odd reason my midwife said they dont let mothers carry for more than ten days past due date... is this the truth? I ended up having a really BAD birth and almost lost the two of us... I don't think this would have occured if I had waited a little longer! Being induced isn't fun! 42+2 sounds like a good time :)

Interesting. And it's bollocks. In my local hospital (Waitakere), they won't induce you *before* you're 13 days over! Main reasons are that most women will deliver before then and it reduces the rates of intervention that flow from a "failed induction". Your birth sounds similar to mine. There is a very slight increased risk of stillbirth as you go over 42 weeks - emphasis on SLIGHT and I don't know the research well. It's why I would want to be monitored so any problems (e.g. placental deterioration, low amniotic fluid) can be picked up on. My MW is happy for me to go past 42 weeks IF everything is going well and that's what I'll do if I need to.

Like Deb, I think I probably just brew longer - my mother and sisters do, so ...... (Though it's interesting about it being the man's fault - I keep trying to tell my DH that it's all his fault!)

I was crazy late like three weeks when I was born lol....so anticipated that my babies would be late and sure enough DS was 9 days overdue..went into spontaneous labour tho. Tried a few tricks in the book but honestly, I reckon they just come when they are ready.

Sucked waiting for this little boy as I had to go stay in this town where the best place to stay was a cabin in a camp ground....and I had to go there 2 weeks before but have to admit that we only went the week before I was due. The temperatures over here were horrendous so wasn't even like we could sit outside with a beer (kidding about the beer bit) and the best thing to do everyday was go to the nearest shopping centre where the only place worth looking in was Big W. haha....am sure the check out people must have recognised me by sight....Oh yeah did I mention that this was over the Xmas/New Years period...I was feeling pretty sorry for myself before we even went, and had a few cries when at Xmas time we drove past people having a nice christmas and we didn't have anything nice...think we had baked beans on toast or something lol (there was not really a kitchen, just a microwave and toaster).

Man, I feel sorry for anyone going overdue...it sucks haha!

Thanks for the info Flissty and Madiandme- I knew there was something strange going on there! I would never recommend my midwife to anyone for that and other reasons. DD was quite happy in there and showed no signs of needing to come out then! I will remember that for next time!

I tried EPO and 5W - apart from straight forward inductions they didn't help me go into labour!

I think your age makes a difference to how far over they let you go? DS was 40+6, but when he was 40+4, I got phoned by the assessment unit to make an appointment for his induction! I was horrified -- I wasn't even 41 weeks, and induction would have meant that I had to give birth in the hospital (I really wanted the more relaxing birthing unit).

I'm in my mid-thirties, and a friend who was 41 for her first got told that if you are over 40yrs for your first, then risks increase for overdue babies, so they induce earlier for older mothers.

(BTW -- I then did EVERYTHING the next day -- big walk up a hill, hot curry, sex and labour started that night!)

Bel wrote: I tried EPO and 5W - apart from straight forward inductions they didn't help me go into labour!

My understanding of those things was that they are meant to help you in labour, not go into labour.

madiandme when i was induced with my second i laboured in the pool at the hospital after my waters broke, was in there for ages.... so being induced doesnt mean you want get to have some of what you want.. If they give you the syntocin (sp) drip thats when you have to be pretty much bed ridden. thats what i would try and avoid.