[purelegance]

So obviously, this child is just not coming on her own free will. One dr says i'm 9 days overdue, and the other says 18. My appt is tomorrow and i know they're going to talk induction of some sort. My thing is... i hate the entire idea of pitocin. i don't know a single person who's had a good experience with it, and when my sister had it in may -- she went through about 5 hours of contractions (with barely a minute inbetween), before they ended up just wheeling her down for a cesarean. plus, i don't like the idea that i won't be able to move around. (at our hospital they have you on the IV, as well as 2 fetal monitors & alot of other cables & wires). Of course, having a cesarean (i.e. major abdominal surgery) scares the crap out of me too and i don't really want to have a cesarean with all of our other kids too. (finding a VBAC doctor around here is kinda like a needle in a haystack).

any advice? should i try the pitocin or should i just opt for a cesarean (assuming that since pitocin didn't work for my sister, it won't work for me -- which i know isn't always necessarily true). OR am i just too worked up about the cesarean & it's not as bad as i've made it out in my head to be? I'd rather not go for either, but at this point i'm obviously going to have to choose and i'd rather go for the lesser of the 2 evils.