on inducing labor ...

i'm here to tell you

nothing works.

[insert negative nancy comments here]

although having rhys on his due date 

or before/after by a day

would probably work out best for everyone

i really want him now.

and since i can't have him NOW

having him on saturday - 09.10.11

would be awesomeeee, right?

what a neat birthday.

-anyway-

since this weekend was a day longer

and we got everything accomplished that NEEDED to be done

i decided to go ahead and start trying all those natural induction methods

HA.

guess who's still pregnant?

so, what did we try?

here goes:

1. raspberry leaf tea. 

i read many articles on this

and how it doesn't really INDUCE labor but helps prep

but many a woman swore after drinking it for 24-48hrs

they went into labor!

well - 13 cups later, still not in labor.

at least it tasted good!

2. chinese food.

yep, saturday night we ordered chinese

and LOTS of it

and extra spicy

and nothing happened.

3. sex/walking

not going into detail on this one

since it's pretty self-explanatory! 

4. eggplant 

[for fun]

monday night

i made eggplant parmesean

it was delicious 

within an hour of eating it - contractions began

they were 5 minutes apart and lasted over 2hrs!

i thought that i might have found the trick 

but the contractions never got closer together or more intense

actually, i was able to fall asleep.

i woke up a few times during the night to contractions

and still had them the following morning when i got up to get ready for work.

i decided to stay home, just in case.

5. pineapple

i ate an entire fresh pineapple tuesday morning for breakfast

i thought since the eggplant had jump started contractions

pineapple might just help to finish up the job

not quite

contractions actually became slower at this point and more far apart.

SO

that's my theory on self induction

NOTHING WORKS.

i have tried just about everything out there

short of castrol oil

which i don't WANT to try because it's not very safe supposedly

and causes diarrhea - which i don't want!

plus, the reality is

that it's just NOT that serious

i am not even 40 weeks yet

at this point, i realize that i'm being selfish and am just over being pregnant

the funny thing is

i told myself when i first got pregnant

that i wouldn't push induction and would stay pregnant [if i had control over it]

until 40 weeks

because there is a reason we [as women] are pregnant that long!

my rationalization was this:

say 40 weeks comes - and still no rhys

and they want to induce me, medically

i would kick myself in the tail for not trying the 'natural' ways

so i figured it couldn't hurt to BEGIN trying now that i'm full term

i guess, i just got my hopes up

especially after monday night/eggplant/contractions!

but, the fact is i'm still pregnant

and still healthy

and for that, i should be grateful!

i do have a doctors appointment tomorrow afternoon

so i will know if any of the above methods has softened/opened my cervix anymore

but knowing my luck, i'm still only 1cm

[negative nancyyyyyy, negative nancccyyyyyy]

i also think at tomorrow's appointment 

i will go over induction 

i don't wish to go PASSED my due date

so i think i will ask to be induced on the 19th or 20th or even the 21st 

i am just really OVER coming to work 

and sitting in a chair for 8hrs

while people continually ask 

'no baby yet?'

'feeling alright?'

'is the baby coming???'

i'd rather sit at home and be miserable 

than have tons of people in my face that have no clue what i'm going through! 

UGH!

QUESTION:

anyone have any other suggestions that i haven't tried that you swear by??

i'm willing to try it all ;)

after all - anything natural is better than pitocin/medical induction!