Monday, December 16, 2013

How does induction work at 38 weeks?

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Frances.


I'm currently 34w3d and yesterday at my appointment I was told that they may want to have me induced at 38 weeks due to me being diabetic.
We will be talking about it in more depth at my 36 week appointment but I was just wondering about the procedure if the baby hasn't engaged by that point. Is it something that would happen naturally as the labour went on?
Anyone else been in the same situation?



Answer
I was induced at 38 weeks with my first child due to PIH. The baby was still very high, I was not dilated or effaced when we started the induction. I was to report to the L & D unit at 7 AM so they could monitor the baby for an hour prior to starting the induction. After that was done my OB arrived and placed Cytoek, a small pill, on my cervix to help dilation. I had to lay flat for 3 hours. At 11 AM she came back and since I was dilated to 2 CM broke my water which started contractions about an hour after my water broke. Since the contractions were not as strong as they would have liked them at 3 PM they hooked me up to a Pitocin drip and it worked great. The contractions got very strong and very close together. By 6 PM I need an epidural, I finally received it at 8 PM. I was able to relax at that point. However, I feel it slowed my dilation process as I was stuck at 7-8 CM for hours. At 11 PM my OB tol dme that in 1 hour if I had not dilated fully to 10 CM I was going to have to have a c-section for lack of progression. When she came back at midnight I was fully dilated and stared to push. My epidural ran out around 1 AM and I pushed without any pain medication, which seemed to be more helpful and she was born at 2:38 AM, 6 lbs 13.5 oz. Recovery was almost instant, I had absolutely no problems. Best of luck to you!

How old was your child when you stopped using the monitor? If you had 2 young kids, did you...?




demelo


...use 2 monitors?
We'll be having baby #2 soon. and #1 will be 2 years old. Do we buy another monitor?



Answer
Once the older kids were in a bed and not a crib, we stopped using a monitor for them. At that time, if they needed our attention, they could climb out of bed and come get us. And although we had to train them with the sometimes-conflicting message "OK, now you have to stay in bed, but you can get out of bed if you need us", it has worked well for three of our children so far (#4 is still in the crib).

So if you are putting your 2-year-old in a big boy/girl bed, I think you can ditch the monitor. But if the two year old is staying in a crib, I say you buy another one. Otherwise, you have no way of knowing when they are in distress. Sometimes though it is hard to operate two monitors in the same house. Despite specifically purchasing one with different frequencies, we have had trouble getting two separate monitors to work.

They do sell a monitor that we now own made by First Years that we have now that has three different base units and three different channels on the receiver. The receiver can be set to either one channel exclusively or it can cycle through all three channels. We have owned probably three different monitors over the years and this one is definitely the best.

Good luck with the new baby and your new "big brother/sister"!!




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