by Becky Vieira posted in Mom Stories

Even though it pains me to walk, yesterday I somehow managed to skip into my doctor?s office. It wasn?t the appointment that excited me, rather I was three days away from my scheduled c-section and elated. The light at the end of the tunnel was brightly illuminated and my son would soon be in my arms.
As soon as I saw my doctor?s face I knew that excitement would be short lived, a feeling confirmed when she greeted me by saying, ?we have a slight change in schedule.?
It turned out she tragically had a death in the family and would be be out of state the day of my c-section. We discussed having one of her colleagues perform the surgery, but due to ongoing pregnancy complications my husband and I decided to wait for her return and rescheduled. ?There?s one option,? she said. ?I don?t leave town for another day and while there is no open OR that I can schedule tomorrow, if you go into labor we can deliver. So consider taking steps to induce labor naturally.?
Game on.

We knew we had a finite window of time to bring on contractions. Needless to say we were in a big hurry, and subsequently paid the price for that later.
We started with a mad dash through the grocery store. I took a cart, my husband grabbed a basket and we agreed to meet somewhere in the middle, like a modern-day version of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo literally running through the store. I grabbed anything spicy that crossed my line of sight and nearly cried with hormonal frust...