I loathe the medical system in this country

So beyond getting a few different dates for delivery, being high risk because i just turned 35 but bp is good, baby fluids are good...been very prayerful theough this... I'm here to encourage anybody if you know the experience you want to have, especially a vbac please stand for what you want because no one should be able to pressure you in the medical office to do something that you don't want to do, especially when everything is in good standing.

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I agree with this. I just had a baby @ 35. But how I went about it was finding myself a doula and getting with a midwife instead of an ob doc. Having a doula help advocate was very nice and my midwife’s made it even better during child birth since I was able to labor in water and be in whatever position I wanted to push my little girl out.
Keep praying and keep your head up you got this mama!

I couldn’t agree with you more. With my first I wanted to wait until 42 for an induction and doc said she doesn’t “allow” anyone past 41. I said no and agreed to fetal monitoring. At 41+2 I had a checkup and she lied to me, saying the baby’s heart didn’t look good, and we needed to induce asap. I ended up getting a second opinion on that after baby was born because I had a feeling she was lying and she absolutely was.

Yea this why I I went to two appointments and otherwise had a wild pregnancy with self monitoring from 21 weeks onward. I'm 38w5d with baby three and just delivering at home. I was SAed by a nurse before my first delivery in labor when no other nurses were present, they caused me to hemorage with my second, God they can kill me.

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After growth scans telling me she was predicted to be 97th centile I opted for induction and she was born 38+4, they were 100% right 8lb 7oz of this little chunk on 97th centile!