Julia Thompson schreef:
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>
> > And on a very positive note: I'm still doing a lot of things I think
> > Julia would be absolutely jealous. ;o) Only after yesterdays (rather
> > unpleasant) experience biking experience I think I'll quit the biking
> > activities for a while now. ;o)
>
> Well, if your suppers aren't being punctuated at the end by a lot of
> activity near the bottom of your womb, hitting multiple systems, then I'm
> jealous right there. ;)
You may be rightiously jealouse then. I just realised how short a period three
weeks is gonne be. The next three weeks are going to be short indeed.
> And I can barely *look* at a bike without wincing if I think about
> actually attempting to ride it.
Well I'm still tempted. It is such a nice quick and easy way to get around
here. Especially with the weather being so nice and sunny and warm. Yesterday
Jeroen and I proved that from the center of the city to our house taking the
bike is actually a lot quicker. I took him downtown by car to pick up his
bike. He drove his bike home and I went by car. Now I'm so disappointed that
he won easily. He was waiting for me to arrive and it wasn't even anywhere
near rushhour.
> (I went to my doctor this morning. I'm at about 39 weeks, and she's
> started talking about how she wants to induce labor if I don't deliver by
> 42 weeks, to give you an idea as to how things are progressing here.)
That topic has been cleared at around 6 to 7 months of pregnancy. Actually all
labour concerning topics have long since been cleared multiple times. You get
all the information you want and might need so you can mull it over and think
about what you want rather early on in the third trimester. If at all possible
natural birth is waited for. (42 weeks is when the placenta starts to
deteriorate and babies health is starting to be at risk, hence induction of
labour by that time) So, as long as the baby and I are all right they won't
induce labour for any reason whatsoever. Not even being over time is enough of
a reason as long as junior is OK. Actual decisions of what will happen are
made on the spot and based on how mother and child are doing. As always I
still have time to reconsider or change my mind once I'm at the hospital.
Actually they try to accomodate for my wishes as much as possible. Unless the
baby is at risk I get to call the shots. Even if the baby is at risk I get to
call the shots on the options that are left to me. It is a large
responsibility but I think I rather like it that way.
Sonja
