I hope y’all found that helpful! If you have done this before and feel like I am leaving out anything important, I would love to hear below! I am obviously a newbie here so this checklist was just a compilation of all of the other lists that I read + what made the most sense to me! I also want to note that every hospital is different so i’m sure there are items that most hospitals will supply while others may not which may have been my reason for leaving some things off the list!
As promised, an update on mine and babes current status! I had my appointment yesterday and he is doing great but may be making himself a little too comfortable if you know what I mean lol. No progress has been made as far as dilation goes and based off of my original due date I will be 39 weeks tomorrow. If it continues this way and nothing has changed by my appointment next week, we have scheduled a few cervical ripening appointments to try to move things along on their own. For anyone who doesn’t know what that is (like myself before I went to the doctors today lol) they have me come into the office/hospital to take a pill and will monitor me for an hour and then send me home. For some contractions will start after one dose for others it will take quite a bit more or will not work. It is often the step they take before they resort to inducing you. After three attempts if I am still not progressing enough I will be getting induced. Who knows what could happen over the next week but a lot of people say that the first baby often needs a little push! Only time will tell!
Hope you all have a great rest of your week and a wonderful weekend! If you don’t already, follow me on IG for more updates as we get closer to our little one’s arrival! 🙂