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Why are hospitals/doctors induction happy?

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I had my first whoops-that’s-not-labor moment. You hear about people having them, nervous first time moms running to the hospital only to be sent home a few hours later, still pregnant. That was me yesterday only I’m not a first time mom. With my first daughter my water broke and it was go time. This pregnancy has been so different. When I woke up Saturday morning I thought I had lost a bit of amniotic fluid in my jammie pants. I was nauseous and felt like one big Braxton Hicks contraction and when I called the on-call doctor, who I’ll name Dr. Bummer, he told me I should probably head on on in to the hospital to get checked out.  read more »