Pregnancy Update – 39 weeks
Yes, still pregnant! At my last appointment the doctor told me any day now and that I probably won’t go over my due date, but if I do he’ll induce after 10 days. Urgh! An extra 10 days of being pregnant! The first time around it wasn’t too bad being over due, the first pregnancy is so new and exciting that it really wasn’t a big deal. It was probably easier to be induced the first time because at least I was already at the hospital and I didn’t have to worry about wondering if I was in labor or when I should go to the hospital. But I do have to say that induced labor is harder than natural labor.
I told my husband that I’m scared that I’m not going to know when I go into labor. I mean I’ll know when the hard contractions start but as for the first stages of labor I’m not sure that I’ll recognize the signs. For both of my other pregnancies I was in labor and didn’t even really realize it until after the hard contractions started. And with my second pregnancy I had about an hour maybe two of hard contractions before the baby was born. Which is why I’m scared that I’m not going to recognize the signs in time to get to the hospital. Our babysitter is just over an hour away and then it’s a 40 minute drive to the hospital. So from the time that I realize that I’m in labor to the time to get to the hospital is about 2 hours. Which is more than the 2 hours of hard labor that I was in the last time and usually things go quicker with each pregnancy. So I’m scared I’m going to be delivering the baby in the vehicle on the way to the hospital.
