Hey!!!

So I don’t know who else to talk too that would possibly understand where i️m coming from.

My husband is a fire fighter in the Air Force, making him mission essential. His work schedule just got changed to 48/48, so he’s at work for 48 hours, home for 48 hours, so on and so fourth.

We have one car, and live about 6 mins off of base. I usually drop him off at work, and pick him up.

I️m 38w 1d as of today, my due date is Jan 29th. I really don’t care when our baby girl arrives, as long as she’s healthy and doing fine. Not picky at all.

BUT with his new schedule, I can’t help but stress about him being at work when I go into labor. Like, what if i start having contractions so bad to where i can’t go pick him up from work? It’s not like he can get a co worker to bring him home, theyre mission essential, and the station needs to be manned at all times. And that brings up another point, what if they don’t have anyone to cover my husband once i go into labor? Or they do, and they just take a really long time for it to get going. I️m Group B strep + so if my water breaks I have a limited amount of time to get to the hospital.

ALSO, we just moved here, and we have a puppy. We don’t have anyone to watch our dog, and the one person we have is one of my husbands co workers, but with the new schedule, we dont know if he is working or not when i go into labor... and like i said it’s not like they can just leave work for 30 mins at a time, or that they work 9/5... it’s a 48 our shift.

I feel like If we were to set up an induction date, we would be able to plan a little bit better. We could make sure my husband is off from work, as well as his co worker.

Everyone I talk too says “oh you don’t want to be induced”, and I understand things can go wrong during induction, and it puts you at higher risk for c section, and i realllllly don’t want a c section and i would LOVE to go into labor naturally, but i just don’t know what to do.

Wait it out, which I have no problem doing, or talk to a midwife about induction.

I see multiple midwifes at the place I go too, and last week I brought it up to the midwife i saw and her response was something like “You can all an uber to bring you to the hospital” “your husband can come later on” “can’t he get a ride?”... Which I understand, but i felt like she wasn’t listening to my concerns.

Please help, and give me opinions!