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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here with an update, two weeks later (baby's original due date)!

THANK YOU so much to everyone who posted their advice and the well wishes! Your words helped me advocate for myself and ensure a good outcome for both myself and baby girl.

The afternoon I went into the office, I kept emphasizing my high blood pressure readings from the past week along with swelling of extremities and slight headaches. I also played up the fact that both my sister and mom had GH. All signs pointed to being induced. And so I was, just 3 hours later. Everything went well and was fairly quick, within the same nursing shift, which is rare when going from 1 to 10 cm dilated. Oddly enough, BP was not that high at the hospital (120s-130s systolic). Maybe because I wasn't that stressed out anymore about when the baby would come out. After less than 15 minutes of pushing, baby girl made her appearance, as healthy as can be at 38 weeks!

Although the L&D floor was quiet, the hospital was definitely short staffed. I could see how maybe they wanted to hold out on beds for the most emergent patients. In the end, mother and daughter went home on day two and are doing well :-)[/quote]

great news!! my BP was also low in the hospital, but lying down gives artificially low readings. I also gave birth extremely quickly! Not in the same nursing shift but maybe 12 hrs after induction started. did you need pitocin?

my guess is the dr office knew they were going to induce you but not quite yet. [/quote]

This is interesting, my BP was also lower while giving birth but quite high at other appointments. I walked around and did not stay lying down the whole time but did lie down for a lot of it.[/quote]

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