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with your other 2 children how fast did you deliver?? i take it that those weren't induced. if it were me i would make your doctor give you FULL details as to why he wants to induce before the baby is full term. you are still not out of the "safe" zone, and i would be some what considered about having a baby come even 2 weeks early. a due date can be off as much as 2 weeks +/-. i was induced because of my high blood pressure/ borderline pre-e. for me it was a horrible experience, and would NEVER do it again unless it was immediate care that was needed. i think a lot of doctors are WAY to quick to induce, because its convenient or the mother is "uncomfortable" about 2 years ago it wasnt heard of to induce a mother unless she was 2 weeks past due date, or something was wrong.. its so weird that rather then the baby picking its birthday, the mother and doctor is

Maybe your doctor just means you will talk about induction at your 38 week appointment, not actually do it that soon. I think I was about 38 weeks along when we first discussed the possibly of an induction. But we weren't going to do it until I was 40 weeks along. It was partly a convenience issue. My mom was taking off work to drive 1100 miles to see her new grandchild. I wanted him to be here! :) I ended up being induced a couple days before I reached 40 weeks, though, because I wasn't able to keep anything down and I was actually losing weight, even though the baby was gaining fine. I was having contractions, too, so the doctor decided it would be best to go ahead and have the baby.

My son was three weeks overdue when I was induced. I remember the doctor explaining that it just puts too much stress on the mother and baby to let the pregnancy go too far past term. The baby may grow too big to be delivered easily and is more likely to inhale fecal material during the delivery which can cause a lung infection.

I am not an obstetrician but it does sound like that is what he is thinking. How long is your trip to the hospital that he would be concerned. I know women who by 3 and 4th kids from start to end of labor was less then 3 hours.

I don't see the reason why he would induce you before your delivery date unless there was something wrong with baby or you. I found this article online about one in 5 cases where mothers have been induced before their baby is due - usually for the convenience of the mother and family/doctor?!? i hope this helps because it got me wondering too. Like the previous response I was induced only because my son was supposedly two weeks late so that makes sense to do it then but before?!? not sure! http://query.nytimes.com/...

Well think of it a little more like this - they class a pregnancy as FULL TERM once you hit 36 weeks - everything is fully developed within the baby & they are really just waiting for the baby to WANT to come out. I think he might want to induce because maybe it isn't healthy to be dialated already & still have a month to go? It's hard for me to say though coz my daughter was overdue & i never even went in to labour. Her due date was June 15th - she came out by C section but was definitely over cooked. Dr's do know what they're doing, no matter how many mothers on here will argue & give you advise from sites they've found. Just trust your Dr that he knows what is happening & if he thinks this is the best option then you should trust his judgment, he's done this MANY times before - i'm sure he's not an idiot! Good luck!

This is just all MHO here, but please, please, please don't feel pressured into being induced. If things have been completely normal so far and you and baby are still healthy, there is absolutely no reason at all to be induced early. Umm, except that it's probably out of convenience for the dr more than anything. There will be no benefit to you to go early and MHO again is that we should let nature run its course if at all possible. I was induced for one of mine, but that was out of medical necessity. And it was on our EDD anyway, so we weren't going early out of convenience for us or the doc. But for each of our following pregnancies, I've gone full term with no complications at all, hit right on or just over the EDD, and been just fine. As for starting to dilate already, that's perfectly normal too (but I'm sure you know that since you've been through this twice before). I think for every one of ours, I've sloooooooowly dilated over the period of about a month, again, with no complications at all. I don't think the doc can really be able to guess at this point whether you'll make it to your due date or not with those dilation/effacement stats. Honestly, just about everything with babies and timing is guesswork so I don't think it's right for him to tell you he doesn't think you'll make it to the due date. Delivery times for me have gone something like this: two hours, three hours, 30 minutes (Yikes! We cut it close on that one! lol), and four hours. For the most part, I think we as women/moms-to-be can be in tune enough with our bodies to know when it's time to make that frantic drive to the hospital. I couldn't find the statistics to save my life, but I remember hearing that the number of babies who enter the world en route to the hospital is very, very low in comparison to the overall number of births every year. So I wouldn't stress about that at all. Just keep those positive thoughts going that you and baby will make it to your due date and the delivery will go off without a hitch. :-) Long winded as it was, this is again all just MHO. I think you should trust your own body and instincts and not let a doc pressure or even try to slightly sway you into an induction that isn't medically necessary. (Besides. In other research I've done I've found that inductions quite often end in emergency c-sections that might not have been required if mom was permitted to go into labor on her own.)

I can't see any reason to induce a healthy pregnancy at 38 weeks. The baby will come when he/she's meant to come, and unneeded inductions can be quite traumatic for you & for the baby. The info you gave here is pretty normal for where you are in your pregnancy & really does not predict how soon your labor will start or how quickly your birth will happen. You could go into labor tonight or you could go into labor after being at this 'stage' for a month.

I would talk to the doctor and ask him what he is thinking. I have been induced early with both of my pregnancies. Sometimes its easier to be induced. For the first, I had no choice. My little girl had stopped growing. But, the second I requested the induction. We have no family and wanted our little girl to be taken care of. I did not want her at the hospital. Maybe he is thinking about your children? Or maybe he is just thinking that your baby will be ready so wh not let you have the baby and Everything be just fine. I would just talk to your doctor about your concerns. Good luck!!!

I was induced with my 3rd child because we did not allow nature to take its course. I commented on your other post about membrane stripping. That was done which put me into labor the next morning. I went to the hospital and they set me all up. They decided to break my water to get my contractions going better, which did help. I decided to have a pain killer to take the edge off, but all it did was stop my contractions. So they induced! I don't wish that upon anyone! It hurt like (bleep). I think you just need to prepare yourself in case the baby does come earlier then expected. I would never be induced again. I told the Dr. with my 4th baby that I refuse to be jump started or induced and he came rather quickly on his due date. Labor started at 10pm, I took a bath and got to the hospital around 12am. They set me all up which took about an hour. The nurse told me it would be around 7am that the baby would be born and I proved them wrong. I was 2 cm dialated and my water was bulging. Around 1:30am my water bursted all over the place and I told them the baby was coming. By 2:13am he was born. It;s hard to judge the delivery time, but I wouldn't go for being induced if you don't have to.