# I'm being induced tomorrow **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611 "2010-01-27T02:34:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/1 "2010-01-27T02:34:29Z")
Baby Will is a week late so tomorrow is the day. I’m due at the hospital 8:00 AM sharp. I’m nervous and excited and dreading it and anticpating it all at the same time. Thing I’m dreading most is saying goodbye to my two-year-old daughter when we drop her off at my sister’s house–our time alone together is over. ☹ Anyway, that’s all. Wish us luck! ---
**Author:** ![keturah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@keturah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keturah)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/2 "2010-01-27T02:37:21Z")
You have my wishes for good luck and an easy labor (as if that is possible!) Welcome little Will. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/3 "2010-01-27T02:37:29Z")
Aww…lots of other good times are going to come along! Best of luck to you, dear. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/4 "2010-01-27T02:54:44Z")
You’re being what!? Just say ‘no’…! He should wait til you’re ready. There’s even a book that Dear Abby gives out with 100 answers to the moves that boy is trying to put on you… Oh wait. \*In-\*duced. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/5 "2010-01-27T04:47:47Z")
**Count Blucher** , you know…I could have used that advice about nine months ago and then I wouldn’t be in this fix to start with! JK. I need to go to bed. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/6 "2010-01-27T08:22:29Z")
> [@PeskiPiksi](#): > > Baby Will is a week late so tomorrow is the day. I’m due at the hospital 8:00 AM sharp. > > I’m nervous and excited and dreading it and anticpating it all at the same time. Thing I’m dreading most is saying goodbye to my two-year-old daughter when we drop her off at my sister’s house–our time alone together is over. ☹ > > Anyway, that’s all. Wish us luck! No, it isnt … daddy can have alone time with the new baby giving you and your daughter some alone time together … and then at other times daddy and daughter can have some alone time to do something special as well. See, my dad loved doing stuff with me, I can remember some tea parties, and sitting watching a movie on TV or reading together and going shopping for Mom’s birthday and christmas presents. It is perfect, you can arrange it so that you can each have some alone time with each kid in turn, find something special that each one likes to do like being read to or a tea party. When the baby is in the small incoherent and unhousebroken phase, daddy time would give you some time away from someone so young and possibly screamy when you are frazzled. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/7 "2010-01-27T12:59:49Z")
Sending out a wish for a safe and easy delivery! I hope both mother and baby are healthy. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/8 "2010-01-27T19:27:23Z")
Good luck, but they’re inducing you at a week late? My first was two weeks late and they only started to think about it. The second was induced, but that was because the doctor was leaving for Labor Day and wanted to pay for his trip.🙂 Having observed both, being induced was much better. We actually got to use the playing cards in our bag. And it was a lot faster. Post a picture! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/9 "2010-01-27T23:11:19Z")
> [@PeskiPiksi](#): > > **Count Blucher** , you know…I could have used that advice about nine months ago and then I wouldn’t be in this fix to start with! > JK. I need to go to bed. Glad everything is going ‘ok’. (I would have felt very guilty if I had made you break your water. Worse, if you had insisted I clean it up.) Get some sleep while you can. * * * If it helps, I remember the first time my oldest was brought out. He seemed so sweet and fragile. Until he projectile vomited amniotic fluid half way across the room and I had to scream for the nurse. He’s been some-what normal ever since, but he turns 13 this month, so I know that’s over & done with… ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/10 "2010-01-27T23:13:45Z")
Seeing as how this was posted yesterday, I just wanted to offer up some congratulations. Hope you and baby had a successful birth and are now resting comfortably. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/11 "2010-01-28T02:31:14Z")
Good wishes tomorrow and congratulations! I had that same feeling of missing my first son (whose name is Will, also) when my second son was born. It was definitely an adjustment, but you will all get your rhythm. ---
**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/12 "2010-01-28T20:25:32Z")
Thanks, everyone! Will was born yesterday at 4:42, 7lbs, 12 ozs. Very easy delivery compared to my daughter (took three hours of pushing to get her out!) Although, I have a feeling he’s going to be a handful. First thing he did when they put him on my chest moments after he was born was to pee in my face. Hubby thinks he was marking his territory. 🙂 Going home tonight, hoping to beat the winter storm. **Voyager** , yeah I know a lot of doctors do let it go longer, but this is just the way my doc does it and I trust him. (My daughter was also induced at a week late.) I don’t mind…I was ready for him to get here and I figured either way he’d be fully cooked! ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/13 "2010-01-28T22:06:02Z")
Congratulations!! How exciting, baby makes four! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/14 "2010-01-28T22:51:42Z")
Congratulations. Wishing you a lifetime of joy with your new family. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-induced-tomorrow/526611/15 "2010-01-28T23:07:17Z")
> [@PeskiPiksi](#): > > **Voyager** , yeah I know a lot of doctors do let it go longer, but this is just the way my doc does it and I trust him. (My daughter was also induced at a week late.) I don’t mind…I was ready for him to get here and I figured either way he’d be fully cooked! Congrats! When my wife was due with our first, the woman downstairs was due the same day. Their baby was born, home, and practically in college by the time ours felt like showing up.