Advice or encouragement 💕

Sorry kinda long 😅

Hi everyone. Just looking for some encouragement or advice. I had a C-section with my first baby February 2023 due to being stuck at 9 cm for a few hours. Fast forward now, im 38 weeks due on the 28th of October. I’ve brought up wanting to push to my doctor a few months ago, in which he said he wouldnt recommend it but if I was to dilate on my own he would let me try and ofc let me know if the risk and such. Well I had my appointment yesterday and he checked. Said I was soft but still closed. Obviously not the end I wanted to hear so I got very emotional. I’ve done everything I could that I seen online since I was 34 weeks. I’ve walked, did yoga, drank the raspberry leaf tea, just to name a few. So it was pretty disheartening to hear he scheduled my C-section for the 23rd next week🥲 but he told me he can check me again on Monday before to see if anything changed and again he’d let me try. So IM wondering if any of you ladies had any sudden changes in the span of 5 days dialation/ contraction wise? Or should I just give up and get the C-section? I’m really trying to keep my hopes up but unfortunately I’m not confident my body is going to do it on its own. Any words of encouragement or advice would be great.

Thank you 💕💕