My consultant is refusing to thwart me

[victoriascrumptious]

I lead a very boring life what with doing the Mother and Toddler rounds and filling out reams of paperwork in my mundane p/t job. Sadly the highlight of my month will be a visit to my consultant.

I had the same consultant for my last pregnancy and he's very good and doing c-sections (lovely/tidy no complications) but he has some serious communication problems i.e he doesnt really talk to you-just sort of lurks behind the midwives avoiding eyecontact. In fact the only time he got animated last time was when he leapt out to stick his hand up my fanny. Looking back, given the level of pain this engendered I wonder whether he was trying to do a sweep (but decided to surprise me rather than tell me).

The first visit to him this time round I declared that I wouldnt be having an induction after my last c-section-his response:

"yeyys" (imagine the African accent)
[long pause]
"And i'll be trying more natural methods of induction"
"yeyys"
"Like castor oil"
"Yeyys"
"and pinapple"
"yeyys"
"and rollies-pollies"
"yeyys"
"i'm going to stick a whole pinapple up my chuff to get things moving along"
"ah yeyys"
[long pause]

I had written a birth plan which consisted of two lines but then I thought 'fuck it' that's shit. Last night I rewrote my birth plan and included my need for constant carol singing, whale song and burning of sacred herbs. I'm also going to demand that he wears a Dora the Explorer hat

Do you think he'll say
"Yeyys"

?

you are going to have to get much much more radical to get him to say anything.

refuse to have constant monitoring in labour or tell him you want to wait until 43 weeks for any sort of induction interventuion. that should get him hot under the collar.

You can't be induced anyway, it increases the risk of scar rupture. It did when I had my vbac. Unless they've changed it. Syntocinon -- is that the culprit?

I think those gel things are bad too.

Eccentrica-he'll think i'm taking the piss if I ask for those things

I hope you were joking about the castor oil.

I don't know whether i'm joking Fab, I might give it a go. I don't want another Cx

It reads like you want to get one over the consultant tbh.

mental stamina -- you still have a toddler? imagine trying to lift your toddler for a cuddle with a cx scar ..imagining my mil coming round to "help" after a cx did it for me as they tapped their watches and shook their heads....really focussed me!

Nah, I don't want to 'get one over' on him.

tell him you are going to have a home water birth? And that you will refuse vit k for the baby, that really spooks em!