why do people???

Question

Why is it that people flip out anytime anyone asks about inducing labor...when they are 37 weeks or more... 37 weeks is a full term pregnancy...and completely safe to deliver at that time...If ya'lls don't have any thing that will actually answer people's questions that they ask about induction at 37+ weeks...why say anything at all? Just curious....

ok no...ya'lls...I am saying like when the person asking about induction...has gotten the good to go from their doctor to try to get labor started....If the doctor says your not ready then your not ready...

Answer 1

OOOOOOO do I agree with you!

I was induced with both of my children and if I had a 3rd I would like the same thing! They both were happy and healthy.

To me it is safer than...Am I in labor? Am I not? or OOOO s#*t it too late. It is in a controlled environment with constant supervision. And why not...

Not mention...if the doctor say "yes" who are yahooligans to question that... especially seeing probably 98% of them are NOT doctors. And the doctor knows the whole situation and has watched that mother for some time. And there are many, many occasions where even if you go into labor yourself they still give you the medicine to move things along.

Good Post!

Answer 2

Each person is different, but I was induced at 37 weeks and I don't regret it.

I had not planned on getting induced, but my due date fell during a 2 week vacation that my Dr. was taking. I was at a point where I was ready to deliver at any time, and the Dr. asked me if I wanted to be induced so he could be there for the delivery or take my chances and possibly go in to labor while he was not there. I made the choice to be induced, so that me and my soon to be born daughter were assured care by the Dr. who I had seen through my pregnancy, and who was a Dr. I trusted to care for both of us.

My daughter was fine, she was a little jaundiced, but did not require any treatment. She was of normal weight, and was as healthy as any mother could want.

If I get pregnant again, I would prefer not to be induced. But, I don't think it is a wrong thing, it just depends on the circumstances.

Answer 3

I had my twins at just hours into 37 weeks after being in preterm labor since week 30 on hospital bedrest with no bathroom priviledges. During the last weeks babies put on fat which can benefit them should they become ill early and since they loose weight the first week. I was able to hold each 4 pound baby in the palm of my hand. They were low birthweight babies. My friend who delivered her twins a month later had 8 pound babies who are healthy and smart and strong today. Mine are not. They have many disabilities.
During the past couple of decades babies have been born at the convienence of doctors and parents instead of by biological means. What if you have miscalculated your due date. Induction means introducing pitocin which is made by the expectant mothers body when it is time. Nurses have to closely monitor labor to make sure mother and baby handle the stresses well. What if you have an idiot nurse taking care of you and she does not call the doctor when you need her to. What if you have an idiot doctor. You and your baby can die. At 37 weeks there is still a chance infant lungs are not fully developed unless you are tested and there is a great risk for waiting shun early induction.
I will care for my children as long as I live because they probably will not be able to manage without my care, after I die..institution? If I had kept them inside just a few more weeks it could have made all the difference.

Answer 4

It just seems like a bad idea to induce labor unless there is a very valid medical reason to do so. It's always best to wait until the baby is ready to be delivered on its own, if at all possible. It's more fully developed that way.

Answer 5

A full term pregnancy is 37-42 weeks.

Babies are like every other human on the face of the earth and we all develop at different rates. Why would you want to risk a babies health if their lungs may not be fully developed? Is there something so wrong with waiting until the baby is ready to be born? Having babies is not all about convenience.

Babies with under developed lungs run a higher risk of RSV. Why take any chances?

Answer 6

We induced both of ours. It's the best way to go. You can plan things much better that way. I'm old fashioned and a bit of a purist, but inducing is so much better on the mother and the rest of the family, and, like you said, it doesn't hurt the baby at all.

Now, I do have a problem with finding out the sex of the baby before it's born. What's the use in doing that? It's very exciting waiting to see what it is. For the first six months it makes absolutely no difference what sex it is. All it's going to do is eat, poop, and cry.

Answer 7

37wks is NOT the time to induce unless a MEDICAL reason makes it a must. Due dates are an estimate, not exact, it can be off by up to 2 weeks either direction. Imagine if you were actually 35weeks and got induced because you were "tired of being pregnant" and your little one had problems. Not a good idea. When you got pregnant you signed up for 40 weeks my dear. I happen to work Labor and Delivery, I have seen it "go bad". Just relax and enjoy this baby inside of you.

Answer 8

Well - two points on inducing labor... one, in general, there's a reason the baby hasn't popped out... and it is generally best to let nature takes its course rather than induce labor for convenience...

That said - my sister's labor for her first child was induced... and frankly, she over baked him... he was so large head wise that he couldn't drop, and simply was stuck there until they were forced to perform a c-section... his head was just plain HUGE... no way that was going to fit going out the old fashioned way...

-dh

Answer 9

at 38 weeks you are full term, try black and blue cohosh. ask a midwife how its used.

Answer 10

i dont know but im curios 2