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wanderlost
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Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!
">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ultrasound-risks.html
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Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!
wanderlost
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Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!
">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ultrasound-risks.html
</a>
Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!
wanderlost
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Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!
">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ultrasound-risks.html
</a>
Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!
wanderlost
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">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ultrasound-risks.html
</a>
Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!
">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ultrasound-risks.html
</a>
Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!
wanderlost
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<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/ultrasound-risks.html
">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ultrasound-risks.html
</a>
Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!
">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ultrasound-risks.html
</a>
Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!
wanderlost
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>hbollotte</b></i>
since i have gest. diabetes they want to monitor us closely. they want to check to make sure the baby is growing properly and my amniotic fluid.</end quote></div>
Well, I understand that - but I was diagnosed with Gd with ym first (the diagnosis ended up being wrong, but that wasn't confirmed until AFTEr baby) and there was never any talk of c-estions or routine ultrasounds - I would have said no anyway, but I think my MDs were looking at my sugars and fundal height and baby heartbeats as cues - have your sugars consistently been high? Your fastings? With a modified diet?
since i have gest. diabetes they want to monitor us closely. they want to check to make sure the baby is growing properly and my amniotic fluid.</end quote></div>
Well, I understand that - but I was diagnosed with Gd with ym first (the diagnosis ended up being wrong, but that wasn't confirmed until AFTEr baby) and there was never any talk of c-estions or routine ultrasounds - I would have said no anyway, but I think my MDs were looking at my sugars and fundal height and baby heartbeats as cues - have your sugars consistently been high? Your fastings? With a modified diet?
wanderlost
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>hbollotte</b></i>
since i have gest. diabetes they want to monitor us closely. they want to check to make sure the baby is growing properly and my amniotic fluid.</end quote></div>
Well, I understand that - but I was diagnosed with Gd with ym first (the diagnosis ended up being wrong, but that wasn't confirmed until AFTEr baby) and there was never any talk of c-estions or routine ultrasounds - I would have said no anyway, but I think my MDs were looking at my sugars and fundal height and baby heartbeats as cues - have your sugars consistently been high? Your fastings? With a modified diet?
since i have gest. diabetes they want to monitor us closely. they want to check to make sure the baby is growing properly and my amniotic fluid.</end quote></div>
Well, I understand that - but I was diagnosed with Gd with ym first (the diagnosis ended up being wrong, but that wasn't confirmed until AFTEr baby) and there was never any talk of c-estions or routine ultrasounds - I would have said no anyway, but I think my MDs were looking at my sugars and fundal height and baby heartbeats as cues - have your sugars consistently been high? Your fastings? With a modified diet?
wanderlost
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>hbollotte</b></i>
since i have gest. diabetes they want to monitor us closely. they want to check to make sure the baby is growing properly and my amniotic fluid.</end quote></div>
Well, I understand that - but I was diagnosed with Gd with ym first (the diagnosis ended up being wrong, but that wasn't confirmed until AFTEr baby) and there was never any talk of c-estions or routine ultrasounds - I would have said no anyway, but I think my MDs were looking at my sugars and fundal height and baby heartbeats as cues - have your sugars consistently been high? Your fastings? With a modified diet?
since i have gest. diabetes they want to monitor us closely. they want to check to make sure the baby is growing properly and my amniotic fluid.</end quote></div>
Well, I understand that - but I was diagnosed with Gd with ym first (the diagnosis ended up being wrong, but that wasn't confirmed until AFTEr baby) and there was never any talk of c-estions or routine ultrasounds - I would have said no anyway, but I think my MDs were looking at my sugars and fundal height and baby heartbeats as cues - have your sugars consistently been high? Your fastings? With a modified diet?
wanderlost
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>hbollotte</b></i>
since i have gest. diabetes they want to monitor us closely. they want to check to make sure the baby is growing properly and my amniotic fluid.</end quote>
Well, I understand that - but I was diagnosed with Gd with ym first (the diagnosis ended up being wrong, but that wasn't confirmed until AFTEr baby) and there was never any talk of c-estions or routine ultrasounds - I would have said no anyway, but I think my MDs were looking at my sugars and fundal height and baby heartbeats as cues - have your sugars consistently been high? Your fastings? With a modified diet?
since i have gest. diabetes they want to monitor us closely. they want to check to make sure the baby is growing properly and my amniotic fluid.</end quote>
Well, I understand that - but I was diagnosed with Gd with ym first (the diagnosis ended up being wrong, but that wasn't confirmed until AFTEr baby) and there was never any talk of c-estions or routine ultrasounds - I would have said no anyway, but I think my MDs were looking at my sugars and fundal height and baby heartbeats as cues - have your sugars consistently been high? Your fastings? With a modified diet?
wanderlost
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>hbollotte</b></i>
since i have gest. diabetes they want to monitor us closely. they want to check to make sure the baby is growing properly and my amniotic fluid.</end quote>
Well, I understand that - but I was diagnosed with Gd with ym first (the diagnosis ended up being wrong, but that wasn't confirmed until AFTEr baby) and there was never any talk of c-estions or routine ultrasounds - I would have said no anyway, but I think my MDs were looking at my sugars and fundal height and baby heartbeats as cues - have your sugars consistently been high? Your fastings? With a modified diet?
since i have gest. diabetes they want to monitor us closely. they want to check to make sure the baby is growing properly and my amniotic fluid.</end quote>
Well, I understand that - but I was diagnosed with Gd with ym first (the diagnosis ended up being wrong, but that wasn't confirmed until AFTEr baby) and there was never any talk of c-estions or routine ultrasounds - I would have said no anyway, but I think my MDs were looking at my sugars and fundal height and baby heartbeats as cues - have your sugars consistently been high? Your fastings? With a modified diet?
K
Keepercjr
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>wanderlost</b></i>
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">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ound-risks.html
</a>
Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!</end quote></div>
I'm right here with ya Wanderlost.
Haley I also want to know why induce or section you at 37 weeks?? Thats totally crazy!!! Trust me, the last thing you want, especially having CF, is a c-section. I watched my SIL recover from a much needed c/s and it was horrible. And she didn't have to endure the endless coughing that comes with CF.
Please please educate yourself. I was totally uninformed during my first pregnancy and look back now at all the little things that I could have refused or changed for the better. I had a good outcome (easy vaginal birth) but I realize that I could have had a much different one (c-section).
Just because you have GD does not mean you need to deliver early! And CF does not mean you need to deliver early. Induction on a first time mom at 37 weeks just screams "failure to progress leading to c-section". The odds are NOT in your favor at all.
I also agree w/ wanderlost about the necessity of so many biophysical profiles. It sounds like they're trying to cover their butts but they're kinda going overboard IMO. I got an u/s every 6 weeks w/ Logan at the perinatologist's office. I haven't decided if I'll see the peri again this next pregnancy but if I do I won't consent to an u/s every 6 weeks just to check growth. Do some online research about management of GD pregnancies during the last trimester. I've never heard of someone with mild GD needing BPP every week and then being delivered at 37 weeks.
I keep saying it but I'll repeat it again - please get the book "the thinking woman's guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer. You can read whatever parts of it are relevant to your situation. You can also check out ICAN (international cesarean awareness network) for info on how to avoid a c/s. My SIL has found them really helpful in her quest to have a VBAC with her baby due in march
One last thing - keep in mind that having a c-s limits your choices in future births. Its getting harder and harder to find providers and hospitals that are truly supportive of VBACs. So basically you'd be setting yourself up for future c/s and the recovery that goes along with it (along with caring for not only a newborn but any other children you might have). And having a c-s can make breastfeeding much more difficult and also make bonding with your newborn more difficult.
I know I'm passionate about this but I just believe that women need to be making informed decisions about their care and being told you need to deliver at 37 weeks makes me call BS and speak up. Take care <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/ultrasound-risks.html
">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ound-risks.html
</a>
Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!</end quote></div>
I'm right here with ya Wanderlost.
Haley I also want to know why induce or section you at 37 weeks?? Thats totally crazy!!! Trust me, the last thing you want, especially having CF, is a c-section. I watched my SIL recover from a much needed c/s and it was horrible. And she didn't have to endure the endless coughing that comes with CF.
Please please educate yourself. I was totally uninformed during my first pregnancy and look back now at all the little things that I could have refused or changed for the better. I had a good outcome (easy vaginal birth) but I realize that I could have had a much different one (c-section).
Just because you have GD does not mean you need to deliver early! And CF does not mean you need to deliver early. Induction on a first time mom at 37 weeks just screams "failure to progress leading to c-section". The odds are NOT in your favor at all.
I also agree w/ wanderlost about the necessity of so many biophysical profiles. It sounds like they're trying to cover their butts but they're kinda going overboard IMO. I got an u/s every 6 weeks w/ Logan at the perinatologist's office. I haven't decided if I'll see the peri again this next pregnancy but if I do I won't consent to an u/s every 6 weeks just to check growth. Do some online research about management of GD pregnancies during the last trimester. I've never heard of someone with mild GD needing BPP every week and then being delivered at 37 weeks.
I keep saying it but I'll repeat it again - please get the book "the thinking woman's guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer. You can read whatever parts of it are relevant to your situation. You can also check out ICAN (international cesarean awareness network) for info on how to avoid a c/s. My SIL has found them really helpful in her quest to have a VBAC with her baby due in march
One last thing - keep in mind that having a c-s limits your choices in future births. Its getting harder and harder to find providers and hospitals that are truly supportive of VBACs. So basically you'd be setting yourself up for future c/s and the recovery that goes along with it (along with caring for not only a newborn but any other children you might have). And having a c-s can make breastfeeding much more difficult and also make bonding with your newborn more difficult.
I know I'm passionate about this but I just believe that women need to be making informed decisions about their care and being told you need to deliver at 37 weeks makes me call BS and speak up. Take care <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
K
Keepercjr
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>wanderlost</b></i>
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/ultrasound-risks.html
">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ound-risks.html
</a>
Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!</end quote></div>
I'm right here with ya Wanderlost.
Haley I also want to know why induce or section you at 37 weeks?? Thats totally crazy!!! Trust me, the last thing you want, especially having CF, is a c-section. I watched my SIL recover from a much needed c/s and it was horrible. And she didn't have to endure the endless coughing that comes with CF.
Please please educate yourself. I was totally uninformed during my first pregnancy and look back now at all the little things that I could have refused or changed for the better. I had a good outcome (easy vaginal birth) but I realize that I could have had a much different one (c-section).
Just because you have GD does not mean you need to deliver early! And CF does not mean you need to deliver early. Induction on a first time mom at 37 weeks just screams "failure to progress leading to c-section". The odds are NOT in your favor at all.
I also agree w/ wanderlost about the necessity of so many biophysical profiles. It sounds like they're trying to cover their butts but they're kinda going overboard IMO. I got an u/s every 6 weeks w/ Logan at the perinatologist's office. I haven't decided if I'll see the peri again this next pregnancy but if I do I won't consent to an u/s every 6 weeks just to check growth. Do some online research about management of GD pregnancies during the last trimester. I've never heard of someone with mild GD needing BPP every week and then being delivered at 37 weeks.
I keep saying it but I'll repeat it again - please get the book "the thinking woman's guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer. You can read whatever parts of it are relevant to your situation. You can also check out ICAN (international cesarean awareness network) for info on how to avoid a c/s. My SIL has found them really helpful in her quest to have a VBAC with her baby due in march
One last thing - keep in mind that having a c-s limits your choices in future births. Its getting harder and harder to find providers and hospitals that are truly supportive of VBACs. So basically you'd be setting yourself up for future c/s and the recovery that goes along with it (along with caring for not only a newborn but any other children you might have). And having a c-s can make breastfeeding much more difficult and also make bonding with your newborn more difficult.
I know I'm passionate about this but I just believe that women need to be making informed decisions about their care and being told you need to deliver at 37 weeks makes me call BS and speak up. Take care <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/ultrasound-risks.html
">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ound-risks.html
</a>
Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!</end quote></div>
I'm right here with ya Wanderlost.
Haley I also want to know why induce or section you at 37 weeks?? Thats totally crazy!!! Trust me, the last thing you want, especially having CF, is a c-section. I watched my SIL recover from a much needed c/s and it was horrible. And she didn't have to endure the endless coughing that comes with CF.
Please please educate yourself. I was totally uninformed during my first pregnancy and look back now at all the little things that I could have refused or changed for the better. I had a good outcome (easy vaginal birth) but I realize that I could have had a much different one (c-section).
Just because you have GD does not mean you need to deliver early! And CF does not mean you need to deliver early. Induction on a first time mom at 37 weeks just screams "failure to progress leading to c-section". The odds are NOT in your favor at all.
I also agree w/ wanderlost about the necessity of so many biophysical profiles. It sounds like they're trying to cover their butts but they're kinda going overboard IMO. I got an u/s every 6 weeks w/ Logan at the perinatologist's office. I haven't decided if I'll see the peri again this next pregnancy but if I do I won't consent to an u/s every 6 weeks just to check growth. Do some online research about management of GD pregnancies during the last trimester. I've never heard of someone with mild GD needing BPP every week and then being delivered at 37 weeks.
I keep saying it but I'll repeat it again - please get the book "the thinking woman's guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer. You can read whatever parts of it are relevant to your situation. You can also check out ICAN (international cesarean awareness network) for info on how to avoid a c/s. My SIL has found them really helpful in her quest to have a VBAC with her baby due in march
One last thing - keep in mind that having a c-s limits your choices in future births. Its getting harder and harder to find providers and hospitals that are truly supportive of VBACs. So basically you'd be setting yourself up for future c/s and the recovery that goes along with it (along with caring for not only a newborn but any other children you might have). And having a c-s can make breastfeeding much more difficult and also make bonding with your newborn more difficult.
I know I'm passionate about this but I just believe that women need to be making informed decisions about their care and being told you need to deliver at 37 weeks makes me call BS and speak up. Take care <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
K
Keepercjr
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>wanderlost</b></i>
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">http://www.mothering.com/artic...ound-risks.html
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Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!</end quote></div>
I'm right here with ya Wanderlost.
Haley I also want to know why induce or section you at 37 weeks?? Thats totally crazy!!! Trust me, the last thing you want, especially having CF, is a c-section. I watched my SIL recover from a much needed c/s and it was horrible. And she didn't have to endure the endless coughing that comes with CF.
Please please educate yourself. I was totally uninformed during my first pregnancy and look back now at all the little things that I could have refused or changed for the better. I had a good outcome (easy vaginal birth) but I realize that I could have had a much different one (c-section).
Just because you have GD does not mean you need to deliver early! And CF does not mean you need to deliver early. Induction on a first time mom at 37 weeks just screams "failure to progress leading to c-section". The odds are NOT in your favor at all.
I also agree w/ wanderlost about the necessity of so many biophysical profiles. It sounds like they're trying to cover their butts but they're kinda going overboard IMO. I got an u/s every 6 weeks w/ Logan at the perinatologist's office. I haven't decided if I'll see the peri again this next pregnancy but if I do I won't consent to an u/s every 6 weeks just to check growth. Do some online research about management of GD pregnancies during the last trimester. I've never heard of someone with mild GD needing BPP every week and then being delivered at 37 weeks.
I keep saying it but I'll repeat it again - please get the book "the thinking woman's guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer. You can read whatever parts of it are relevant to your situation. You can also check out ICAN (international cesarean awareness network) for info on how to avoid a c/s. My SIL has found them really helpful in her quest to have a VBAC with her baby due in march
One last thing - keep in mind that having a c-s limits your choices in future births. Its getting harder and harder to find providers and hospitals that are truly supportive of VBACs. So basically you'd be setting yourself up for future c/s and the recovery that goes along with it (along with caring for not only a newborn but any other children you might have). And having a c-s can make breastfeeding much more difficult and also make bonding with your newborn more difficult.
I know I'm passionate about this but I just believe that women need to be making informed decisions about their care and being told you need to deliver at 37 weeks makes me call BS and speak up. Take care <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
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Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!</end quote></div>
I'm right here with ya Wanderlost.
Haley I also want to know why induce or section you at 37 weeks?? Thats totally crazy!!! Trust me, the last thing you want, especially having CF, is a c-section. I watched my SIL recover from a much needed c/s and it was horrible. And she didn't have to endure the endless coughing that comes with CF.
Please please educate yourself. I was totally uninformed during my first pregnancy and look back now at all the little things that I could have refused or changed for the better. I had a good outcome (easy vaginal birth) but I realize that I could have had a much different one (c-section).
Just because you have GD does not mean you need to deliver early! And CF does not mean you need to deliver early. Induction on a first time mom at 37 weeks just screams "failure to progress leading to c-section". The odds are NOT in your favor at all.
I also agree w/ wanderlost about the necessity of so many biophysical profiles. It sounds like they're trying to cover their butts but they're kinda going overboard IMO. I got an u/s every 6 weeks w/ Logan at the perinatologist's office. I haven't decided if I'll see the peri again this next pregnancy but if I do I won't consent to an u/s every 6 weeks just to check growth. Do some online research about management of GD pregnancies during the last trimester. I've never heard of someone with mild GD needing BPP every week and then being delivered at 37 weeks.
I keep saying it but I'll repeat it again - please get the book "the thinking woman's guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer. You can read whatever parts of it are relevant to your situation. You can also check out ICAN (international cesarean awareness network) for info on how to avoid a c/s. My SIL has found them really helpful in her quest to have a VBAC with her baby due in march
One last thing - keep in mind that having a c-s limits your choices in future births. Its getting harder and harder to find providers and hospitals that are truly supportive of VBACs. So basically you'd be setting yourself up for future c/s and the recovery that goes along with it (along with caring for not only a newborn but any other children you might have). And having a c-s can make breastfeeding much more difficult and also make bonding with your newborn more difficult.
I know I'm passionate about this but I just believe that women need to be making informed decisions about their care and being told you need to deliver at 37 weeks makes me call BS and speak up. Take care <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
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Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!</end quote>
I'm right here with ya Wanderlost.
Haley I also want to know why induce or section you at 37 weeks?? Thats totally crazy!!! Trust me, the last thing you want, especially having CF, is a c-section. I watched my SIL recover from a much needed c/s and it was horrible. And she didn't have to endure the endless coughing that comes with CF.
Please please educate yourself. I was totally uninformed during my first pregnancy and look back now at all the little things that I could have refused or changed for the better. I had a good outcome (easy vaginal birth) but I realize that I could have had a much different one (c-section).
Just because you have GD does not mean you need to deliver early! And CF does not mean you need to deliver early. Induction on a first time mom at 37 weeks just screams "failure to progress leading to c-section". The odds are NOT in your favor at all.
I also agree w/ wanderlost about the necessity of so many biophysical profiles. It sounds like they're trying to cover their butts but they're kinda going overboard IMO. I got an u/s every 6 weeks w/ Logan at the perinatologist's office. I haven't decided if I'll see the peri again this next pregnancy but if I do I won't consent to an u/s every 6 weeks just to check growth. Do some online research about management of GD pregnancies during the last trimester. I've never heard of someone with mild GD needing BPP every week and then being delivered at 37 weeks.
I keep saying it but I'll repeat it again - please get the book "the thinking woman's guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer. You can read whatever parts of it are relevant to your situation. You can also check out ICAN (international cesarean awareness network) for info on how to avoid a c/s. My SIL has found them really helpful in her quest to have a VBAC with her baby due in march
One last thing - keep in mind that having a c-s limits your choices in future births. Its getting harder and harder to find providers and hospitals that are truly supportive of VBACs. So basically you'd be setting yourself up for future c/s and the recovery that goes along with it (along with caring for not only a newborn but any other children you might have). And having a c-s can make breastfeeding much more difficult and also make bonding with your newborn more difficult.
I know I'm passionate about this but I just believe that women need to be making informed decisions about their care and being told you need to deliver at 37 weeks makes me call BS and speak up. Take care <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
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Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!</end quote>
I'm right here with ya Wanderlost.
Haley I also want to know why induce or section you at 37 weeks?? Thats totally crazy!!! Trust me, the last thing you want, especially having CF, is a c-section. I watched my SIL recover from a much needed c/s and it was horrible. And she didn't have to endure the endless coughing that comes with CF.
Please please educate yourself. I was totally uninformed during my first pregnancy and look back now at all the little things that I could have refused or changed for the better. I had a good outcome (easy vaginal birth) but I realize that I could have had a much different one (c-section).
Just because you have GD does not mean you need to deliver early! And CF does not mean you need to deliver early. Induction on a first time mom at 37 weeks just screams "failure to progress leading to c-section". The odds are NOT in your favor at all.
I also agree w/ wanderlost about the necessity of so many biophysical profiles. It sounds like they're trying to cover their butts but they're kinda going overboard IMO. I got an u/s every 6 weeks w/ Logan at the perinatologist's office. I haven't decided if I'll see the peri again this next pregnancy but if I do I won't consent to an u/s every 6 weeks just to check growth. Do some online research about management of GD pregnancies during the last trimester. I've never heard of someone with mild GD needing BPP every week and then being delivered at 37 weeks.
I keep saying it but I'll repeat it again - please get the book "the thinking woman's guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer. You can read whatever parts of it are relevant to your situation. You can also check out ICAN (international cesarean awareness network) for info on how to avoid a c/s. My SIL has found them really helpful in her quest to have a VBAC with her baby due in march
One last thing - keep in mind that having a c-s limits your choices in future births. Its getting harder and harder to find providers and hospitals that are truly supportive of VBACs. So basically you'd be setting yourself up for future c/s and the recovery that goes along with it (along with caring for not only a newborn but any other children you might have). And having a c-s can make breastfeeding much more difficult and also make bonding with your newborn more difficult.
I know I'm passionate about this but I just believe that women need to be making informed decisions about their care and being told you need to deliver at 37 weeks makes me call BS and speak up. Take care <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>wanderlost</b></i>
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Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!</end quote>
I'm right here with ya Wanderlost.
Haley I also want to know why induce or section you at 37 weeks?? Thats totally crazy!!! Trust me, the last thing you want, especially having CF, is a c-section. I watched my SIL recover from a much needed c/s and it was horrible. And she didn't have to endure the endless coughing that comes with CF.
Please please educate yourself. I was totally uninformed during my first pregnancy and look back now at all the little things that I could have refused or changed for the better. I had a good outcome (easy vaginal birth) but I realize that I could have had a much different one (c-section).
Just because you have GD does not mean you need to deliver early! And CF does not mean you need to deliver early. Induction on a first time mom at 37 weeks just screams "failure to progress leading to c-section". The odds are NOT in your favor at all.
I also agree w/ wanderlost about the necessity of so many biophysical profiles. It sounds like they're trying to cover their butts but they're kinda going overboard IMO. I got an u/s every 6 weeks w/ Logan at the perinatologist's office. I haven't decided if I'll see the peri again this next pregnancy but if I do I won't consent to an u/s every 6 weeks just to check growth. Do some online research about management of GD pregnancies during the last trimester. I've never heard of someone with mild GD needing BPP every week and then being delivered at 37 weeks.
I keep saying it but I'll repeat it again - please get the book "the thinking woman's guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer. You can read whatever parts of it are relevant to your situation. You can also check out ICAN (international cesarean awareness network) for info on how to avoid a c/s. My SIL has found them really helpful in her quest to have a VBAC with her baby due in march
One last thing - keep in mind that having a c-s limits your choices in future births. Its getting harder and harder to find providers and hospitals that are truly supportive of VBACs. So basically you'd be setting yourself up for future c/s and the recovery that goes along with it (along with caring for not only a newborn but any other children you might have). And having a c-s can make breastfeeding much more difficult and also make bonding with your newborn more difficult.
I know I'm passionate about this but I just believe that women need to be making informed decisions about their care and being told you need to deliver at 37 weeks makes me call BS and speak up. Take care <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
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Oh Haley - why induce or do a C-section 37 weeks! If the BPP looks good, what will be the reasoning?
I know I always pop in with anti-popular-modern-medical-practice advice, but mostly it's because I read A TON of info about this stuff and I have the ability to run my ideas past my OBGYN step mom who agrees with me most of the time (but still, her office does a lot of what I read about in pregnancy talk, so it's not that my ideas are so out there - only that modern medicine has a model that they tend to stick to, even often when they know there are other, possibly better, ways to do things), and I just don't understand the thinking.
Please, please Haley, inform yourself about EVERYTHING - with your own research, not just what your ONE doctor says. Healthy babies with healthy moms (which it sounds like you are) need to stay in until they are ready to be born!!!</end quote>
I'm right here with ya Wanderlost.
Haley I also want to know why induce or section you at 37 weeks?? Thats totally crazy!!! Trust me, the last thing you want, especially having CF, is a c-section. I watched my SIL recover from a much needed c/s and it was horrible. And she didn't have to endure the endless coughing that comes with CF.
Please please educate yourself. I was totally uninformed during my first pregnancy and look back now at all the little things that I could have refused or changed for the better. I had a good outcome (easy vaginal birth) but I realize that I could have had a much different one (c-section).
Just because you have GD does not mean you need to deliver early! And CF does not mean you need to deliver early. Induction on a first time mom at 37 weeks just screams "failure to progress leading to c-section". The odds are NOT in your favor at all.
I also agree w/ wanderlost about the necessity of so many biophysical profiles. It sounds like they're trying to cover their butts but they're kinda going overboard IMO. I got an u/s every 6 weeks w/ Logan at the perinatologist's office. I haven't decided if I'll see the peri again this next pregnancy but if I do I won't consent to an u/s every 6 weeks just to check growth. Do some online research about management of GD pregnancies during the last trimester. I've never heard of someone with mild GD needing BPP every week and then being delivered at 37 weeks.
I keep saying it but I'll repeat it again - please get the book "the thinking woman's guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer. You can read whatever parts of it are relevant to your situation. You can also check out ICAN (international cesarean awareness network) for info on how to avoid a c/s. My SIL has found them really helpful in her quest to have a VBAC with her baby due in march
One last thing - keep in mind that having a c-s limits your choices in future births. Its getting harder and harder to find providers and hospitals that are truly supportive of VBACs. So basically you'd be setting yourself up for future c/s and the recovery that goes along with it (along with caring for not only a newborn but any other children you might have). And having a c-s can make breastfeeding much more difficult and also make bonding with your newborn more difficult.
I know I'm passionate about this but I just believe that women need to be making informed decisions about their care and being told you need to deliver at 37 weeks makes me call BS and speak up. Take care <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">