blmurch

First off, thank you for your help, stories, and laughs these past nine months.

If I don't go into labor before tomorrow night - come on full moon eclipse mojo - I will be induced due to my age (42) and my borderline BP. I will be given pitocin. Am I crazy to hope that I can do that without an epidural? Has anyone here done that? I completely know that everyone is different, but would love to hear any advice/stories/etc. Also, send labor vibes as I'd much rather do this without pitocin if possible, but it's not looking likely.

I'm two weeks out and no other symptoms of labor, but the contractions have been here now on and off (mostly off) for three days. They are intermittent and seriously don't hurt, but they are tiring me out and taking my breath away. Trying just to breathe through them all and not get overwhelmed. Somehow I didn't expect to have "false labor" for days and I know that they can go on for weeks. Just didn't enter my brain for some reason and they're taking me by surprise. I had the classic image of contractions / water breaking / labor / birth. Time to readjust my settings! :)

I thought it would be helpful to maybe add to the wiki/faq a list of the apps that we use to track everything - from trying to cycle before conception, tracking our weekly progress, timing our contractions, and the baby's feedings and diapers afterwards. I'm sure there are other things to track that I have no idea about.

I would say name the app, what it does, and if it's for Android or iOS

History....

• Was morbidly obese most of my adult life - hovering around 80-100 pounds overweight.
• Over the past 5 years I slowly lost 80 pounds which got me down to 190 at 5'10" (86 kg at 178 cm)
• I gained a bit of weight back before I got pregnant which put me back at around 205 pounds
• Have a history of high blood pressure but I take 200 mg labetalol 100 mg 2x/day and it's perfect at 120/80.
• Used to run (slowly) and ride my bike everywhere.
• I am from the states, but have been living in Argentina for the past 8 years.

Currently

• Just turned 42
• I am at 22 weeks and have gained 20 pounds so far. Both my OB and my regular Dr want me to not gain any more weight. So that means e