For some reason, those last few weeks are even longer as they go beyond their due date. At some point, the doctor will likely suggest inducing your labor if your body doesn’t seem to want to do it on its own.

If you’d like to hear some experts discussing the how and why of induced labor, click on the TV screen below:

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Video: Does your doctor want to induce labor?

I’ve been there and, honestly, I did speed things up for my second and third children. My first one weighed in at over 9 pounds and he wasn’t an easy delivery. To this day, I feel he should have been a c-section. So, in my determination not to have any more monster-sized babies, my other two were born two weeks early. With my first, I went into labor immediately after the doctor broke my water, so chances are I would have gone into labor soon anyway, and with the my third, I think I may have had three drops of induction med before I was in full-blown labor, giving birth just 2.5 hours later.  Both children, born at 38 weeks, were almost 8 pounds. To be honest though, we did have a legitimate reason to bring number 3 out early as it looked like he may have some problems – thankfully, he did not.

Now, we’re learning that even those last couple of weeks are important and we shouldn’t be rushing them. According this article, Expectant Moms Should Wait Out Due Date For Deliveries, Experts Urge, the baby is still using those final weeks to fine tune and finish developing.

So, no matter how tempting it is, remember that the end is in sight – hang in there!

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Why you shouldn’t rush your due date

DELIVER ME: Episode, Now or Never
Premieres Tuesday, June 10 at 8 PM ET/PT
Complex pregnancies and high-risk births—these are worries for many parents-to-be, but they are everyday occurrences for Drs. Alane Park, Yvonne Bohn and Allison Hill.  Discovery Health’s new docu-series, DELIVER ME, follows the careers and lives of these three dynamic women—best friends who became partners in a demanding Los Angeles OB/GYN practice.  In this episode, cancer survivor Terri Harrah approaches her due date, but when the large size of her baby makes a natural delivery risky, Alane has to decide between inducing a pre-term labor or proceeding to Caesarian section. Meanwhile, Claudia Lima is about to become a mother for the third time – sixteen years after her most recent child – but a bleeding scare lands her in the hospital, putting her life, and the pregnancy, in jeopardy. And doctor becomes patient when Kay May Kwok, a resident training in OB/GYN, prepares to join Yvonne, Alane, and Allison in the unique society of moms who deliver babies.

AMAZING BIRTHS: Episode 2
Airs Thursday, June 12 at 8 PM ET/PT
Amazing Births is a thrilling, fast-paced one-hour program that introduces us to remarkable mothers from around the world – mothers who never made it to hospital — mothers compelled to give birth without medical help, in extreme situations. Their incredible stories are brought to life through dramatic re-enactments, actual 911 telephone recordings, intimate first hand interviews, and real-life home video footage. In this episode, meet a woman who went into labor during the worst ice storm in 50 years.  Then, a Girl Scout who performed the ultimate deed and helped her mother deliver her baby.  Finally, follow a lady whose car was turned into a roadside delivery room.

(information sent by press release from Discovery Health)

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