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Monday, May 02, 2005

36-week-appointment update:

* After only gaining 1 pound between 32 and 34 weeks, I guess I got cocky. I gained 4 pounds between 34 and 36 weeks. Damn ice cream.

* Had a Group B Strep swab but no internal exam yet, for which I was grateful.

* The Papoose has not dropped yet - the doctor said the pressure when I walk and the twingey pelvic pains I've been having are likely the result of posture changes due to the extra weight in front and the baby's head pressing on my cervix, respectively.

I asked the doctor about his policy for induction. I don't want to be 42 weeks pregnant, but after everything I've read about induction, it sounds scary. Your contactions are more intense and painful and induction puts you at a higher risk for C-section. Obviously if there's an emergency I would do it, but I don't want be induced just because I'm a week overdue. The doctor was great; he commended me for "using my head" - I guess there are a lot of women who beg to be induced when they're barely past their due dates. What he told me was that if I go to 41 weeks, they'll offer induction as an option; if I choose it, they'll schedule it between 41 and 42 weeks and hope that I go on my own in the meantime. He did say, though, that they can't let me go past 42 weeks - if I went that long, they would have to induce me, but he said it wasn't very likely I would go as long as that.

I start weekly appointments now, it's hard to believe.

posted by Tricia | 8:21 PM