frustrated! 82may "Overdue" have labour I really am sorry you felt the criticism was toward you! Now in response to you, let me share my anecdotal tale... With my first at 41w1d I had an internal...
Ooh, ouch. Pulling the dead baby card. Bad doctor, no cookie!
Seriously, though, I know how hard it is to decline in the fact of an authority figure, but if you've done your homework and know the data, it's always good to respond by saying something like, "I've done a lot of research on this and the studies I've seen don't appear to support what you're saying. Perhaps you're aware of some more recent information that I don't know about. If so, I'd love for you to share it with me."
I went through this whole thing when I had high BP at the end of pregnancy #3. The perinatologists pulled the "dead baby" card, not my midwives, but it was still upsetting. I did eventually allow an induction (thankfully, all it took was breaking my waters to start labor) because I was exhausted both physically and emotionally from 5 weeks of biweekly monitoring and nurses midwives to induce me at 37 weeks, but I put it off for an additional 3+ weeks and would have put them off longer than that if I hadn't ultimately gotten so sick of it all.
frustrated! 83This is one of those "live and learn" sorts of things. *Never* tell anyone your precise due date. It doesn't mean anything except that it's the...
This sounds like a swell idea. I really wouldn't want to stick with a pracbreastioner who pulled the dead baby card on the GTT!
Good luck! -- Be well, Barbara
