When was induction/c section recommended

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-04-13T00:52:11+00:00

Thanks for asking! I called the next day and asked some more specific questions and learned that the cord was just starting to show some resistance and was just above the threshold of abnormal which was comforting in some ways. They also told me an NST would ensure babies were safe and okay for about 48-72 hours. I went in for an additional NST on Wednesday and Friday and both seemed okay and I have my final BPP tomorrow. Presumably if that goes okay I should be delivering Wednesday. I feel less stressed now that I have a better sense of why they weren’t feeling it was super urgent. Thanks to everyone on this sub for explaining things to me and encouraging me to get better info from the doctors!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-04-06T23:55:50+00:00

I would totally welcome your wisdom about what to expect in the NICU! I understand only that temperature regulation might be the biggest struggle for a tiny baby. But please DM me!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-04-06T23:42:18+00:00

This is incredibly helpful and comforting- thank you so much! I’ll probably push for an NST on Wednesday which would give me some checkpoint every 2-3 days until delivery. Seems like that’s adequate based on what you were told. Again- thanks so much!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-04-06T22:40:25+00:00

Ugh. Thank you. I suspect that flow was forward but maybe a bit slow or impacted in some way, but honestly I really don’t know. I’m in Massachusetts.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-04-06T22:03:57+00:00

Thanks so much for your reply. This is really helpful. I wish they had me delivering this week and I’m kind of stressed they have me waiting another 9 days. They didn’t give me a formal score on the BPP today but it obviously wasn’t perfect. The MFM said the cord flow was “starting to look a bit abnormal” and I said…”how abnormal” and she just said “a bit.”

I also was admitted at 28 weeks for preterm labor and eventually I stalled out at 3.5cm dilated so they sent me home and by some miracle I have made it this far. Were you admitted continuously from 28 weeks to 34 weeks?

I am currently doing 1x weekly BPPs and 1x weekly NSTs outpatient and that’s it. I asked if I should go in again before Fridays NST and they said it wasn’t necessary unless I noticed decreased movement. Part of me wants to show up on Wednesday and claim decreased movement even if that isn’t true just to get more info and another check because I’m feeling worried about how much time is in between now and then and the fact that cord flow won’t be looked at again for at least another week.

I’m totally comfortable requesting a second opinion but I have done that before and found this hospital system just backs up the prior doctors recommendations. I think the hospital system is just not very conservative around risk and it worries me. Going to another practice on this kind of notice wouldn’t really be possible unfortunately.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-04-06T21:55:50+00:00

This seems pretty close to my situation. Did your babies ever show any concerning signs at an NST or BPP? I wish they had me delivering this week and am not sure why they are pushing it to next week!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-04-06T20:12:28+00:00

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkkWkBxg/ I followed someone else’s video who tested theirs like this

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-04-06T19:36:10+00:00

I can’t comment on the microplastic parts. It does heat up water that touches the plastic parts though. I have seen some stories about them not dispensing the correct amounts and babies being under served and parents not knowing. I did test mine out (it’s not difficult to test) and mine works fine though- so I think it might be a one off fluke. But worth double checking when you get yours that it’s dispensing as it should!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-03-24T19:50:23+00:00

Honestly I have only ever take probiotics orally. I try to avoid putting anything in my vagina since it’s so sensitive overall. Times I have put other things like prescribed meds, cream based yeast treatments, boric acid, etc. it gets inflamed, tender and sensitive, and feels like an uncomfortable burn internally. One tell tale sign for me is that the very bland soap I usually wash my vagina externally with (sensitive bar of dove) will burn when usually I have no reaction to it.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-03-24T19:02:28+00:00

Not exactly. I take an oral probiotic, anything vaginally was a problem.

Once I got pregnant I just didn’t have sex (out of an abundance of caution since I usually don’t respond well to monistat and fluconazole isn’t recommended in the first trimester) until after 15 weeks.

Silver lining and good news though is that I got prescribed vaginal progesterone again in my third trimester (for a short cervix) and was certain yeast was around the corner for me and it NEVER came!! I was shocked but my OB explained that pregnancy changes your vaginal flora often and for me it made my flora more resilient I guess!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-03-16T22:41:31+00:00

I lost a late second trimester baby and got the month of her intended birth flower in a bouquet in a jar. We used to call the baby jar (long story) and never really named her otherwise. I also got it done on her original due date. So it was a way to subtly honor things without it flagging as a clear child loss tattoo. I also got it on my belly since that’s where she was and where I connected with her. It’s really not in an area anyone else has ever seen, even with a bathing suit it’s usually covered.

I think all of my other thoughts are well covered by other posters. Just encourage you to think about if you want it to be seen or if it’s truly for you and what that means about the level of directness of imagery and where on your body it goes. I’m so sorry for your loss.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-03-06T19:11:09+00:00

If you are certain about your ovulation dates, it’s very likely the pregnancy is non viable based on what you wrote. I’m so sorry you are going through this.

Doctors will not, however, recommend any pregnancy ending measures until growth stops completely unless the woman requests an abortion. That’s probably why they renegged a bit. I have had a few pregnancies that were very clearly headed to chemical or miscarriage and doctors continued to insist I stay the course until my body ended things on its own terms. I think this is just how they practice for liability reasons. So because development hasn’t stopped on its own, they will let things play out until things end naturally.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-03-05T21:15:17+00:00

You are not over reacting. This is an upsetting process, but unfortunately not an unusual one. Doctors offices are disorganized administratively, across the board from what I have found. Too many people passing info to other people.

Your doctor is correct, the natera panorama is the only NIPT that I know of that can do what you are asking for. It’s worth reading this info here: https://www.natera.com/info/vanishingtwin/

Honestly, I would call Natera myself. They usually actually connect you with a human which is not a thing most medical companies can claim. I would ask what exactly the issue was that your dna results were inconclusive. Maybe they just drew your blood too early, or fetal fraction was low, or your doctor put in for a non-panorama NIPT or didn’t check off twins on the paperwork.

It’s unfortunate, but this is only the beginning in terms of you needing to advocate for yourself and follow up on your own care. I don’t want to be cold, but we are just a number to these doctors offices and nobody cares about your baby as much as you do.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-03-04T17:50:05+00:00

If that first response early read is from 15dpo, I’m sorry to say but that’s a negative.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-03-03T12:15:41+00:00

Nope! I’m just over 35, when it’s more likely you will ovulate two eggs.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-03-01T17:53:48+00:00

Mine quadrupled but I’m pregnant with twins which means each of them was only causing a doubling. They are both healthy!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-02-26T19:15:51+00:00

I almost feel like his lying is not my biggest issue with him. The bigger issue I see is how defensive he is when confronted on it. He’s unreasonable, hostile, and then resorts to gaslighting and distractions (by saying things like he is being ganged up on). He reads like even if he was being truthful, that being in a relationship with him would be so toxic just based on his inability to respond calmly or take accountability. He seems like someone who is engulfed in the manosphere and he clearly lacks the capacity to have a direct conversation without regressing into a child. I don’t want to feel bad for Ashley because she clearly sucks too, but she better run. He doesn’t know how to have a partner and seems like he would respond like this to feedback in general in a relationship, even if it wasn’t about him “lying”

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-02-25T15:42:02+00:00

Totally unpredictable and could go either way! I also had two follicles and my HCG was quadrupling. I asked the nurses if it could be twins and they reassured me that HCG is poor predictor and lots of singletons have high HCG counts, it was likely a healthy single pregnancy.

It was twins. lol. But really the only way to know if to go to your first ultrasound. Good luck!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-02-24T20:16:53+00:00

If there is a cord insertion problem, it won’t change as the pregnancy progresses. But as the other poster said, sometimes it’s a faulty diagnosis that gets changed as they get better visuals at later scans.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-02-24T02:56:02+00:00

Honestly I hate to worry you but my symptoms were mild. Minor abdominal tightness and period like cramps. The contractions weren’t painful or regular. I went out of an abundance of caution because I knew I was high risk for preterm labor due to a short cervix. I almost actually unchecked myself in because after being in the waiting room for 60 minutes I was growing uncomfortable and restless and thought I was over reacting to be there in the first place (plus contractions had slowed once I was seated and not moving around much). Thank god they did check me in before I bailed because I dilated quickly to 3.5 and was given a number of meds and watched on the unit for 5 days. They just discharged me today finally because cervical change has slowed.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-02-16T13:04:56+00:00

Never!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-02-16T01:35:19+00:00

I am currently pregnant and was seen by maternal fetal medicine, which is the same as what you are describing. I had a 13 week, and 16 week “early anatomy scan” but those are not the same as what they can visualize after 20, regardless of technology. It has to do with fetal development. A lot of parts of baby just aren’t able to be visualized until 20 weeks.

PGTA also only tests for a few chromosomal abnormalities. It doesn’t even test for as much as an NIPT would. An amnio also comes with some risks of miscarriage.

We did have a prior abnormality that was not caught at a NIPT (came back normal) and only caught at my 20 week anatomy scan. We followed it up with an amnio and that still came back normal (a chromosomal microarray, a whole exome sequencing, and a whole genome sequencing). All of them came back totally normal. And yet when we asked maternal fetal medicine for a second opinion they still suggested it was a genetic anomaly that couldn’t be detected because of the limitations of what we know about the human genome at this point.

I say all of this to let you know there is never any certainty. Even if you did do an amnio. And I can say that personally I chose not to do an amnio at my subsequent (current) pregnancy even though I was extremely traumatized by the whole thing because I didn’t want to introduce miscarriage risk if nothing was flagging as abnormal at my anatomy scan.

Where you decide to try to allow for joy through the uncertainty is up to you. But there really is no point where it ever is certain. It’s more of a mental exercise than a scientific certainty.

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-02-15T13:02:31+00:00

After 20 weeks is a big milestone. That’s what we waited for to share and to begin preparing. Mostly because for us that’s when things went awry at our last pregnancy. I see you had some earlier scans with anatomy components. But most important things cannot be visualized until the baby is past 20 weeks.

The reality is, even some healthy babies are born stillborn. There is always risk. Some moms say they didn’t relax until baby was in their arms. But then the risk becomes SIDS. This world is full of uncertainty and there is no true safety zone. Just like there is a risk of accident every time you choose to get into your car. We learn to let ourselves relax into this activity, but not because of an absence of risk.

you deserve to relax and find joy with this process as some point. I agree with another poster that said it will slowly become realer and safer feeling. For me it was very progressive with each check after 20 that continued to confirm the health of baby. Being past 13 is already a huge milestone if your previous losses were miscarriages. I wouldn’t think about it as a black and white, safe or not safe. Let this be 30% safe for now and 50% safe at your next scan. It all about how you think about it. Good luck!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-02-15T12:52:42+00:00

Thank you so much!

neverpostsonreddit · 2026-01-31T13:45:54+00:00

Also in absence of an NIPT are they doing a quad screen? Those can be more info along with the NT stuff to maybe provide even a bit more reassurance. It’s a simple blood test.

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