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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Well, I Think This Baby’s Big Enough. Let’s Go Ahead And Induce You…”
“Well, I think this baby’s big enough. Let’s go ahead and induce you next week.” – OB to mother with a due date of December 23rd.
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Stephanie Shields had this to say,
Sep 12, 2011 @ 6:46 pm (Quote)
I don’t know of a single OB in WI that will induce you before your due date just because…..That’s horrible!!
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Melissa Reply:
September 12th, 2011 at 6:52 pm (Quote)
My OB in Wausau, WI, induced my first two pregnancies for convenience sake. I was too stupid to know I could say no. My third was induced at 37 weeks because I was diagnosed with lupus. But he did so many reckless things and was so awful that I had to kick him to the curb.
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Kim Reply:
September 12th, 2011 at 7:21 pm (Quote)
I have had 3 seperate OB’s in WI that have seriously offered to induce. My first induction was in ’98, my 2nd offer was in 2008 (the doc wanted to induce my t-13 baby because I didn’t want a c-section if/when he passed) and my 3rd was offered at 37 weeks but was actually done at 39 weeks. All elective.
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first time mommy Reply:
September 12th, 2011 at 8:23 pm (Quote)
My OB didn’t offer and wanted me to go to my due date. So did my friend’s OB. My friend’s OB was VERY pro-natural birth and mine was all about the drugs, but not knife happy – does that even make sense? LOL she pushed for an epidrual + IV pain meds, but when the L&D nurses found out DS was stuck, she was all oh i don’t wanna section! idk i’m not going back to her! We’re both in south eastern WI. I think it honestly just depends on the OB and not location.
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Mama Wrench had this to say,
Sep 12, 2011 @ 6:56 pm (Quote)
This must be one of those “psychosocial” inductions that ACOG condones.
Hey, if the 25th was good enough for Jesus to be born, it’s good enough for your baby. 
(Yea, yea, yea. I get it. It’s not really his birthday. It was a Roman holiday to a sun god when Christians would go into the catacombs and yadda yadda yadda…..but you get my point).
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What a jerk! My EDD was Jan 2 and it was never suggested that I induce. I was in labor all of New Year’s Eve and gave birth New Year’s Day. As a VBAC in my state, that meant my OB was there the ENTIRE TIME I was–and it turned out, he’d been sitting on VBACs for a couple days before I got there (I waited as long as I could before going in). Why can’t all OBs understand their job that well? (I did feel bad that he was stuck there the whole holiday, but hey, so was I!)
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Kit Reply:
September 13th, 2011 at 9:24 am (Quote)
A friend’s OB was explaining her due date and mentioned it would be right around Thanksgiving. She expressed worry that he might be stuck with her all Thanksgiving(Not a VBAC, but a condition that required he stay close) and he shrugged it off and told her that “Its not a big deal. I like babies better than my in-laws, and my wife will bring us some turkey.”
She ended up going two days past thanksgiving and the doctor showed up with a tupperware thingie full of turkey sandwiches for her and her husband. God bless small towns.
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My husband AND his youngest brother were born on Christmas Eve (5 years apart!). So far as I know, their doctors weren’t forever scarred because they had to work on Christmas Eve. (My husband was actually due on New Year’s Day but came early; I’m not sure about his brother.)
Suck it up and grow a pair, doc. If you want to work 9 to 5 with no holidays, you’re in the wrong profession.
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BeckyJ Reply:
September 13th, 2011 at 6:33 am (Quote)
This is way off topic, but how do you have an actual picture in your comments?
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This is mine. This was my first baby, so I assumed my Dr. would tell me the truth and have my best interest in mind. It started out as a twin pregnancy, but I lost baby B around 9 weeks. At the first ultrasound where we found out it was twins, she scheduled my c-section for the week before my due date. About every other appointment, even though I had already lost baby B, she would pull out her calender and say, “so when is the c-section scheduled?” and I would remind her that I wasn’t having twins anymore. This comment was made at my 38 week appointment after she stripped my membranes without consent(I thought I was dying it hurt so bad). After she stripped my membranes, she felt around on my stomach for a second, then helped me sit up and proceeded to tell me the baby was big enough. I asked her how she knew how big the baby was, and she said, “well, uhh, do you have time for an ultrasound?” That’s when I found out the baby was breech, and my dr. would be doing a c-section, much to her delight. I didn’t know I could wait to go into labor before getting the c-section, or that I didn’t actually have to have a c-section. She ended up doing the section when I was 38 weeks and 6 days. The baby was 8 lbs 9 oz, but she was still totally covered in vernix, so I think she had a ways to go. I definitely will not be going back to an OB for my next baby!
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krp_2000 Reply:
September 13th, 2011 at 2:57 am (Quote)
If an OB doesn’t review your charts enough before you walk in to remember that you lost one of your twins, I’d be looking for a new OB. Also, to your last comment – there are some good OBs out there, so you don’t have to give up on them entirely just because this one was a jerk. And she was a jerk. Stripping your membranes without permission is a big no-no.
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Jessica Reply:
September 13th, 2011 at 8:37 am (Quote)
You know, I don’t *always* have an allergic reaction when I take penicillin. The two times I did were enough to convince me never to take it again. I have a better chance of being healthy and safe with a different antibiotic.
I also have a much better chance of getting the respect I deserve by using a midwife. Why try to find the one OB that will treat me the same, when I can contact one of the 5 midwives nearby and know what I’m getting?
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LeedleFishy Reply:
September 13th, 2011 at 5:33 pm (Quote)
I absolutely agree. There are “good” OBs and there are “bad” midwives — nobody has the corner on the market.
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Get your freaking X-Ray vision away from my belly you monster! Don’t you know X-Rays hurt babies!
Oh, you don’t have X-Ray vision? Are you psychic? Because I would like the winning lotto numbers please.
No? Then how the crap can you tell if my baby is “big enough” or “ready” to come out?
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Jespren had this to say,
Sep 13, 2011 @ 3:54 am (Quote)
On the other hand an OB who can tell size on palpation *would* be a nice change of pace!
Don’t think it makes up for the rest of the conversation though.
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Stacie Reply:
September 13th, 2011 at 9:42 pm (Quote)
lol my dr. tried to guess on my last two and was a lb under with each of them. “i dont think your gonna have a real big baby.. probably about 6-7 lbs..” she was 8lbs 6oz lol. at least she wasn’t pressuring me to get induced cause my baby was big..
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Keep your pants on Doc. If that was my due date based on LMP I can almost guarantee
you that the baby would come in January.
Palpatating after you’ve already stripped membranes doesn’t count as a good sign. And once again going to a woman OB buys you nothing. Yuck!
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The Deranged Housewife had this to say,
Sep 13, 2011 @ 6:13 am (Quote)
Proof that all those bans on elective inductions are basically pointless. *sigh*
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Jane Reply:
September 13th, 2011 at 6:45 am (Quote)
Don’t you wish there was an induction review board where the woman would be assessed by competent doctors who had no vested interest in when she delivered, were not paid by her insurance, and had no association to the hospital? You’d think that by now the insurance companies would have realized it’s cheaper to let the moms not get induced and would have instituted some sort of review board.
Either that or a doctor gets paid less for each successive induction. A normal low-risk OB gets to induce 10% of the practice’s births per month, which gives generous space for emergencies to crop up. Then after that, they get paid 90% of your allowable on the next induction, 85% of the allowable on the one after, and if they induce 25% of the practice’s births that month, they are basically working for free.
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Julie Reply:
September 13th, 2011 at 7:53 am (Quote)
EITHER one of those would be fabulous options! I also wish there were more unbiased, readily available and easily accessible education courses out there for pregnant women about the downsides of inductions. Or, I guess, for OB residents and medical students.
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WHAT?!?!?!
Please tell me this was a joke. Please please please. Oh my gosh. No way this was serious.
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Kit Reply:
September 13th, 2011 at 3:29 am Kit(Quote)
Ok, I’m blaming pregnancy brain. When I read this last night I read it as a woman NOW (in September) being told that her December due date baby was big enough and she should be induced. Hence my minor freak-out. Forgive me.
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Ellen Reply:
September 25th, 2011 at 7:49 pm Ellen(Quote)
That’s exactly how I read it too!
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