Had our appointment on Saturday and passed all my tests again. The baby looks great too! We had another great discussion with a different doc- it's amazing how different they all are.
He said he was 50/50 on induction. He said he'd be fine inducing and not inducing. While I was there, I was contracting about every 9-11 minutes and they were registering about 45 seconds on the monitors (I was only feeling about 15 seconds of it though. He said that and the fact that they are irregular means it's not true labor yet). He said he could induce and speed it up- or we can labor it out on our own. Yes, it would be riskier to induce still b/c of my cervix, but I am in a better spot now than I was on Tuesday.
After a few hours of monitoring, he felt strongly that this was early labor for me, b/c my contractions were intensifying while I was there. But they remained irregular and no plug or water breaking yet. I still haven't dropped. My cervix still isn't 'favorable' and he said that contracting on my own will push dilation. That would reduce my risk when we do induce.
So we chose to go home. I'm walking to bring on contractions and he is giving us till Monday. He doesn't want me going any later than that and felt 2 days was enough time to try to labor it out. If we don't labor on our own b/t now and Monday, they will likely start induction on Monday.
So fingers crossed these contractions get longer, stronger and closer. It's already Sunday and unfortunately I'm not feeling anything-except lots of pain everywhere else! So hopefully something will happen before tomorrow!
We'll keep you all posted!
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