1 week to go! (induction)

[mumtobe2010]

Hi all ...

Getting nervous now, just over a week to go until I get induced! I'm getting induced at 37 weeks due to having a liver problem called OC. Been getting monitored really closely and been having a scan every week. I know the risks of OC and im so so scared! I just want our little girl to be ok...I'm feeling really down as it grows closer!

Anyone else went through induction?? How did it go?

Anyone else suffered from OC??

Thanks X

[BellasYummyMummy]

lots of luck!! i havent had an induction, but if this baby doesnt make an appearance soon i think i'll have to be!

[mumtobe2010]

Are you overdue?? Inductions so scary, as soon as I got my date I was like ahhh lol!

Hope everythings going well for you, good luck!

[Playingatmotherhood]

Good luck with the induction.

I was induced at 38 weeks as baby had stopped growing properly and my blood pressure was high. I didn't go well (although plenty do), it was very long (6 days) and I failed to get passed 1cm or into labour so ended up with an emergency C-section. On the plus side I had no pain from it!

I wasn't going to post as I am sure you would rather hear of positive stories (and hopefully people will post with them)but I wished I had know how long it could take and that it still might not work. That although the guidelines state you should have prostin gel every 6-8 hours you might be seen every 12-18 hours instead and that was a top priority medical induction, the poor women opposite me (who was simply being induced for being overdue) had to wait 36 hours between her 1st and 2nd dose. I might had had more patience and been less stressed by the whole affair (the endless waiting for the next dose) if I had realised what it was going to entail.

I thought I would go in and have a baby within a couple of days, I had no idea they could take a week and wasn't prepared to still end up with a c-section without ever having got into labour, particularly as I was "favourable" for an induction.

Labour ward was very busy but I did get the impression that that wasn't particularly unusual.

I also didn't realise that until they broke my waters (which happened on day 6) that I would be on an antenatal ward with 3 other women and my DH would not be able to stay with me outside visiting hours. That for me was the hardest bit plus the fact that my blood pressure was sky high so they wouldn't let me off the ward and kept checking it every 2 hours day and night so I was knackered. It was a very strange experience, 4 women on a ward, 2 were fighting to keep their babies in and 2 were fighting to get them out.

However, I want to stress that this was just my experience of the hospital I went to, I am sure many hospitals do a better job! You might be lucky and get a less busy labour ward and/or a private room. The lady with the on-going induction (might have been Joy) on the channel 4 programme One Born Every Minute had a private room, it even had a reclining chair so her DH could stay with her, now that would have been fab.

Despite my bad experience (I did have a wonderful c-section but then my DS ended up in the NICU for a week) I would do it all again if I had to, so it is worth it for the moment you hold your perfect baby! Oh, and it hasn't put me off having another one, a year later and I'm pg again

[mumtobe2010]

Thanks for sharing your story, I'd rather know what could happen .

I'm classed as high risk with having OC so hopefully they wont leave me too long. I really would hate to be in a room with others so fingers crossed I'm by myself. I have been warned that my boyfriend may not be able to stay with me, which already has me petrified, i'd much rather him be there with me through it all.

I really would like a natural birth too but my mam had c-sections with both my brother and I, hoping I don't take after her.

Thanks again and congrats on being pg!!!

[roary]

I was induced for being overdue and the best advice I was given was to have a completely open mind about what you are going to do during labour. Induction labours are not necessarily more painful, but they can take a lot longer, so don't rule out an epidural or similar so you can get some rest. Have plenty of food on hand and bring stuff to read and do in case it takes a while.

Of course if you do all this you will no doubt find that the first gel will put you in to labour and you'll have a baby 3 hours later, as happened to a friend of mine!

[mumtobe2010]

Ahh thanks yea i'm expecting it to take a while for me to go into labour... I'm going to take lots of snacks and things to keep me busy as I'll be extremely bored being in there all that time.

[mumtobe2010]

4 days to go for me now!!!! Scared!